Richard Karz is the producer of "The Millennium Dinners," a series of two-hour documentary specials featuring international VIP dinner parties that was conceived in 1996, when Karz was working as a producer for Russian State Television in Moscow and witnessing first-hand the impact of globalization on Russian life. The first program in "The Millennium Dinners" series, "If Women Ruled the World: A Washington Dinner Party," was released nationally by PBS in March 2002 and is sponsored by BellSouth Corporation.

Karz was an independent book and magazine publisher in cooperation with both Macmillan Publishing and Hearst Magazines before becoming an independent television documentary producer. He was Chair and Executive Director of The Barnard Summit on Women, Leadership, and the Future, which took place in the fall of 2001 and featured Janet Reno, Gwen Ifill, Marian Wright Edelman, Governor Jane Swift, General Claudia Kennedy, Carol Gilligan, Naomi Wolf, and HarvardĂs Rosabeth Moss Kanter, among others. The Barnard Summit was sponsored by J.P. Morgan Chase, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the New York Times, and Seventeen magazine.