Michael Ward Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Interim director leading UK government work in Australia and New Zealand to attract strategic direct investment into the UK. Helping out old friends for a few months.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Representing the British Government in New South Wales and leading government support for UK business in Australia and New Zealand and for investment from the region into the UK.

London, United Kingdom

I led the operation to transform what the ex UK Trade & Investment and now the Department for International Trade (DIT) does to support and serve better larger numbers of UK exporters and foreign direct investors. We are re-engineering, through new digital, paid for and partnered delivery in the UK and overseas, how DIT achieves the Government's ambitions on exports and inward investment.

London, United Kingdom

I lead UKTI's cross government account management of major foreign investors and of some of the UK's most important exporters including the major UK banks and accounting firms. I also work on attracting investment from institutional investors into urban regeneration projects and investment into the UK by high net worth individuals.

British Embassy, Paris, France

A senior role in the British Embassy in Paris leading UK Government trade development and inward investment work in France and coordinating inward investment promotion across Europe.

Marketing UK excellence in delivering high quality infrastructure worldwide and supporting UK infrastructure business to access new opportunities globally.Developing a new strategy to promote the UK as a global hub for low carbon business.

British Embassy Budapest

Led the corporate management and policy reporting and outreach of the Embassy. Extensive network in government politics, media and the economy.

Brussels

Foreign Policy advisor and negotiator on Balkans issues for the European Commission External Relations Commissioner and Directorate General

Brussels

I prepared and managed the UK Presidency of the EU in 1998; chaired the EU Council's UK-South Africa Working Group; represented the UK in working groups on the Balkans and Eastern Europe and worked on sanctions.

London, Istanbul, Paris

Policy work in the FCO on UN policy, European Union, Cyprus and the Aegean region; Press and political officer in the British Consulate General in Istanbul; Export promotion and environmental policy at the British Embassy in Paris

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