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Kenneth Damian Ward (born 1957) is an American diplomat currently serving as the United States Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Ward was confirmed by the senate foreign relation committee in 2015.

Early life and education
Ward was born in Queens, New York, New York. He received a bachelor’s degree in international politics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, a master’s degree in international relations from Oxford University, and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Career
Ward is a career civil servant with U.S. Government in the areas of arms control and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. From 2010- 2015, he was the Director of the Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Affairs in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, also serving as the Executive Director of the U.S. National Authority for the Chemical Weapons Convention. From 2009-2010, he was the Chief of Staff for the Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Bureau. In 2008, he served as a senior member of the professional staff of the congressionally-mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. From 1995-2001, Ward was the Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the multilateral negotiations for a protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, as well as the 2006 Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference. From 2004 to 2007, he served as the deputy head of the Libya Weapons of Mass Destruction elimination operation. In 2010, he was appointed adjunct professor for biological weapons at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.