Principal Economist, International Economics Department, The World Bank; Head, Statistical Advisory Services Formerly Senior Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge; Dean and Fellow of Selwyn College. He moved to the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex and to the OECD in Paris before assuming his present post as a Principal Economist in the International Economics Department of the World Bank. He has been in the Bank for 12 years. He spent 5 years as Principal Economist in the East Asia Department. He currently heads up the Statistical Advisory Services section of the Bank.

The UNIHP is greatly saddened by the news of Michael Ward’s passing. Please click here to read his obituary in The Guardian, written by Richard Jolly.