Kevin Ward is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center, where he supports the Entrepreneurship Policy Initiative and the center’s work on the future of American soft power and foreign aid.
Ward is an associate director at Fitch Ratings, supporting development of criteria for rating structured finance transactions across global markets. Previously, he served as an economist at the US Agency for International Development, where he conducted research and prepared strategies to promote economic growth and trade.
Ward holds an MPA from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and a BA in economics from Pomona College.