Ward is on the board of Direct Line Group as the senior independent non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee, having joined in January 2016.
Ward also served as a non-executive director of Partnership Assurance Group plc between 2013 and 2016 and was a member of the PRA Practitioner Panel of the Bank of England from 2015 until 2020.
Prior to the IPE, Ward held a range of senior positions at BP and was head of marketing and business development for energy derivatives worldwide at Tradition Financial Services.
[3] His initial career was as an applied scientist, first for the government agency Science and Engineering Research Council,[4] at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and later for BP, where he moved into management.
He was the longest-serving CEO at Lloyd's of London, [6] during which time, he led a transformation of the business and introduced digitisation of many of the processes, particularly in claims.