Unceasing War on Poverty: Beatrice & Sidney Webb and their World

Michael Ward studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College Oxford, and Economic and Social History at Birkbeck University of London. Elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1981, he led the GLCs economic development work for five years. After the GLC was abolished, he moved to Manchester, where he set up and ran the Centre for Local Economic Strategies. In 2000 he returned to London as Chief Executive of the London Development Agency. Michael and his wife Hilary now live in Sussex; they have two grown-up children. See more