Ward has an Ed.D. in educational planning from Harvard University and has lived and taught in Africa and Southeast Asia. He comes to the Foundation from Vermont, where he had been a private consultant since retiring from the World Bank in 2001.  His work since then has been on a broad range of educational issues, from helping local educators in Africa conduct research on why some primary schools have better student results than others to advising on the design and start-up of urban community development and child development programs in Portugal.  For most of the 1990s, Heneveld worked in sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, and India as an education specialist at the World Bank. Earlier in his career, he worked as a secondary school headmaster in Kenya and a teacher trainer in Vermont; as head of the School for International Training, in Brattleboro, Vermont; and as director of education programs at the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, among many other positions. He is a graduate of Pomona College with a B.A. in history and received a diploma in education from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda.