Despite being born with just one arm and no legs, he earned the Queen's Scout Award after learning to ski and climb mountains.
[4] Hayward was an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1989 and reading Natural Sciences; he went on to obtain a PhD in genetics.
He has had a career in international development, founding the "Society in Tajikistan for Assistance and Research" (STAR), an adult education institute, which he directed for seven years; and helping to empower disadvantaged communities in Zimbabwe.
[5] He also gained a Master's degree from Azusa Pacific University in California and worked as the executive director of Cambridge-based social-reform think tank the Jubilee Centre, campaigning on issues such as workers' rights, national wellbeing and human rights.
[13] As part of his work, through the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, to promote greater inclusion and transparency in the political systems of newly emerging and developing democracies,[10] Hayward has represented the Conservative Party in countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina[14] and Ghana.