Biography of Mark S. Ward
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia
Mark S. Ward is the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service.
He has principal responsibility for the USAID programs in South, Central and East Asia. He chaired the Agency's Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake and Lebanon Reconstruction task forces.
Ward was the 2006 winner of the Service to America Medal for international affairs.
Ward's most recent overseas post was in Pakistan as the Mission Director, serving from July 2002 through December 2003. Prior to that, he was the Director of USAID's Office of Procurement in Washington, D.C.
Ward joined the Foreign Service in 1986 and has served in Pakistan (twice), Egypt, the Philippines, and Russia.
He is a native of San Francisco, and received his Bachelor of Arts in political science and Juris Doctor from the University of California at Berkeley.
He was headmaster of a girl's high school in rural Kenya before law school, and practiced law in Washington for four years before joining USAID.
Ward currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, Maryruth Vollstedt, and their sons, Matthew and Peter.
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