Richard Tolbert is the Chairman of Liberia's National Investment Commission, an institution that has been very busy lately attracting investors to the country from around the globe
Richard Tolbert earned a Bachelor Degree (cum laude) in Economics from Harvard in 1968 and a law degree (Juris Doctor) from Columbia University in 1975, specializing in corporate and international law.
He is the nephew
of the 18th president of Liberia, the late President
William R. Tolbert.