Haskell George Ward
Haskell George Ward was born on March 13, 1940 in Griffin, GA.[1] He worked as a research assistant while attending Clark College in Atlanta, GA for undergraduate studies. He received a Masters of Arts in African Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles.[2] His first visit to Africa was facilitated by Operations Crossroads Africa in 1962. He returned to the African Continent as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia, serving in one of the first groups to work in Africa. He later became a member of Operations Crossroads Africa staff. He went on to work as a Program Officer of The Ford Foundation, serving in the offices of New York and Lagos, Nigeria. During the Carter Administration, he served as Africa Specialist on the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State.
Ward was appointed as one of seven deputy mayors of New York City by Mayor Ed Koch in January 1979. Koch also appointed Ward to lead the Health Services Administration, which effectively made Ward the chairman of the Health and Hospitals Corporation. He also served as Commissioner of the Community Development Agency. Between 1980 and 1987, he served on The Trilateral Commission, the board of directors of the American Council on Germany, and the Governor's World Trade Council of New York. Later in life, he worked as an independent consultant, advising corporations, foundations and government agencies on domestic and international economic development issues.
In 1989, Ward authored African Development Reconsidered: New Perspectives From The Continent.[3] Ward explained his book's premise:
I decided that the basic question I needed to ask Africans was the one that non-government and official aid agencies in the West are asking themselves with increasing frequency these days: Why is it that economic and social conditions in Africa today are dramatically worse than they were 25 years ago, despite significant infusions of financial and technical assistance from these agencies in the Developed World?
References
- ↑ "Haskell George Ward". The New York Times. Jan 20, 1979.
- ↑ LLC, New York Media (1979-02-05). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Search this book on
- ↑ Ward, Haskell G. (June 1989). African development reconsidered: new perspectives from the continent. Phelps-Stokes Institute. ISBN 9780940605527. Search this book on
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