Prof Richard Wright

Emeritus Professor Richard Wright is an experienced archaeologist. He held the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Sydney from 1982 to 1990. His work in forensic archaeology started in 1990-91, when he directed the discovery and exhumation of mass graves in Ukraine. This work was done for the Attorney General's department of the Australian Government, who were investigating war crimes alleged to have been committed by people who were then Australian citizens, and were accused of the mass killing of mainly women and children during the Second World War. For the period from 1997-2000 Richard Wright was Chief Archaeologist for the Yugoslav Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY), in which role he led teams that located and exhumed graves in Bosnia and Croatia. The main project he directed was concerned to discover the fate of some seven thousand men who went missing after the fall of Srebrenica.