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A senior vice-president at Seacom, with more than 40 years of experience in international affairs.
Also senior vice president of Global Alumina Corp.
Born in 1940 in the small town of Griffin, Georgia, Haskell Sears Ward became an active participant in the student sit-in movement carried out by college students during the civil rights movement.
He received his undergraduate degree from Clark College in Atlanta and his graduate degree in African Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles.
Ward began his professional career as a volunteer in Kenya in 1962 and was a member of one of the first groups of Peace Corps volunteers, posted to Ethiopia. He also worked for the Ford Foundation where he specialized in economic development programs and strategies for the Middle East and Africa.
Ward has served as deputy assistant secretary of state and as deputy mayor of New York City. He is the author of "African Development Reconsidered: New Perspectives from the Continent," widely used as a college text book on African development issues.
As a senior vice president at Global Alumina Corp., which he joined in 2000, Ward helps manage its relationships with key government officials and non-governmental organizations, including the U.N., USAID and the World Bank. He is also a senior vice president at Seacom.
Ward is married to Leah Sears, chief justice of the Supreme Court
of Georgia, and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
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A senior vice-president at Seacom, with more than 40 years of experience in international affairs.
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