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Richard Ward (businessman)
Richard Ward (born ) joined the Ardonagh Group, in September as executive chairman of specialty. Ardonagh are one of the world's leading independent insurance brokers. 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
Prior to Ardonagh, Ward was executive chairman of Cunningham Lindsey from June [1] Cunningham Lindsey is a provider of claims management and risk services, with over 7, employees in 60 countries.
In addition to Cunningham Lindsey, Ward served as non-executive chairman of Brit Insurance, from until Ward also served as a non-executive director of Partnership Assurance Group plc between and and was a member of the PRA Practitioner Panel of the Bank of England from until
Prior to these roles, Ward was chief executive of Lloyd's of London, from to [2]
Ward previously worked for over ten years at the London based International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), the second largest energy trading exchange, as both chief executive officer and vice-chairman.
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.
Between and , Ward worked as a senior physicist with the Science and Engineering Research Council, leading a number of research development projects.
Richard ward lloyds biography of mahatma After Partition in , he continued to work toward peace between Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi was shot to death in Delhi in January by a Hindu fundamentalist. His father was the dewan chief minister of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism worship of the Hindu god Vishnu , influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. Upon returning to India in mid, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa.He is married with two children and lives in London.
Education
He graduated from the University of Exeter with a BSc, 1st Class Hons in chemistry and holds a PhD in physical chemistry.[3]
Career
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.[5]
He was chief executive of the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) from to and vice chairman from to
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.
As executive chairman of Cunningham Lindsey from to , he led a major transformation and restructure of the business and carried out a successful trade sale of Cunningham Lindsey to Sedgwick.
As non-executive chairman of Brit Insurance,[7] he took the company public in and led a successful sale of the company in February
As a member of the PRA Practitioner Panel, he served as rotating chair of the insurance sub-committee, an independent statutory panel which represents the interests of practitioners regulated by the Bank of England.
References
External links
- Richard Ward: The transformer, Insurance Day, January
- Cunningham Lindsey has London targeted in TPA push, Insurance Insider, November
- Q&A: Richard Ward: Passing the Lloyd's Baton, Post Online, October
- Dr Ward: Insurers face backlash over bank scandals, the Insurance Times, September
- Lloyd's of London CEO Ward sets out moves away from risk amid euro fearsThe Daily Telegraph May
- Arctic Oil Rush Will Ruin Ecosystem, Warns Lloyd's of LondonThe Guardian April