Bob Ward
Bob Ward is Policy and Communications Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, which he joined in November 2008, shortly after its launch.[1] He is also Policy and Communications Director for the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy; Member of the executive committee of the Association of British Science Writers; Member of the executive committee of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009; Member of the board of the UK's Science Media Centre.[1]
Ward joined the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from Risk Management Solutions, where he was Director of Public Policy and Director, Global Science Networks. Risk Management Solutions Ltd is a risk agency which monitors both health and 'terrorism' risks and is connected with the official view of terror through the Rand Corporation. RMS is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.[1]
Ward also worked as Press and PR manager at the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, for eight years, until October 2006. His responsibilities there included leading the media relations team. Ward has also worked as a freelance science writer and journalist.
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Education
Ward has a first degree in geology and an unfinished PhD thesis on palaeopiezometry. [1]
Affiliations
- Fellow of the Geological Society. [1]
