AACUL STAFF

RICHARD DINES - Director of League Relations

Richard is Director of League Relations for CUNA and AACUL. Prior to joining CUNA, he was Vice President for Mission Banking at the National Cooperative Bank, a Congressionally chartered financial institution serving cooperative businesses. In this position, he managed cooperative development programs, efforts to serve low-income populations, charitable activites, and environmental sustainability projects. Before working at NCB, he worked at the National Cooperative Business Association for eleven years. At NCBA, he coordinated membership recruitment and retention, conferences, public policy advocacy, and .coop domain name sales. He also worked for the City of New York in the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Richard is a Credit Union Development Educator (Class of 2000) and a member of the California State and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. He attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 1993), the University of North Carolina (M. Regional Planning, 1989), and the University of Michigan (B.A., 1986). He has testified before Congress, has made presentations at many conferences and has been quoted and published in numerous publications.

Richard was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two daughters.