'Michael Ward took an Honors Degree in Statistics and Economics at Exeter University in 1958 and was later awarded his MA at Cambridge University. In 1965 he was elected Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and worked as Director of Economic Studies. He served as Dean of that College from 1970 to 1972. In 1975 he was appointed Director of the Statistical Program at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. Both at Cambridge and Sussex he worked with some of the foremost development economists of the time, including Richard Jolly, Graham Pyatt, Dudley Seers and Richard Stone. These were people who, as Michael Ward himself observed in his book Quantifying the World, “abhorred any suggestion that facts be fit to theory and spent their lives building theory around observed facts and creating frameworks that more usefully depicted how the real world worked”.' - Wikipedia article on Bak.
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Mike Ward (New Zealand)
Mike Ward (born 1942) is a Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand politician. He was an MP for one term from 2002-2005. He was co-leader of the Values Party (a predecessor to the modern Greens) from 1985 to 1988. In 2006, Ward was an unsuccessful candidate for male co-leader of the Green Party, following the death of Rod Donald in 2005. He has announced his intention to stand for the Nelson City Council mayoralty in 2007.
Ward was an unsuccessful candidate at seven New Zealand general elections before being elected in the 2002 elections at No. 9 on the Green party list. Although he moved up one place on the list for the 2005 election he lost his seat as the Greens vote fell. When he was in parliament he was the Green Party spokesperson on Arts and Culture, Older Persons, Small Business, Sports, Fitness and Leisure, Tourism and Waste-free. These portfolios were taken over by the remaining six Green MPs after Ward lost his seat.
'Mike Ward was a Values Party candidate in the 1981, 1984 and 1987 elections. He was a Green Party candidate in the 1990 election. He was an Alliance candidate in the 1993 and 1996 elections. He was a Green Party candidate in the 1999, 2002 and 2005 elections. He was a Nelson City Councillor from 1983-1988 and 1992-1998.
Ward was next on the Green Party list after Nándor Tánczos in 2005. In 2008 Ward initially declined to stand aside so that Russel Norman the Green co-leader could take Tánczos's list seat when he resigned from Parliament, because of the advantages in having the party co-leader in Parliament during an election year. Ward changed his mind, and Norman became an MP on 27 June.' - Wiki article on Cheez.
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