Dawn Ward is Chair of the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics and is also Deputy Chair of the Chartered Institution for Further Education. She is a Council member of City and Guilds of London. Chair of Birmingham Hospice and Chair of YMCA Heart of England as well as a Trustee of YMCA England and Wales. She has a wealth of international experience across professional technical vocational education and is passionate about education as an enabler for social mobility.
Dawn has extensive experience in senior positions at Board level (both as a NED and Chair). She has received numerous awards throughout her extensive career in technical and professional education including WFCP Gold Award for leadership in diversity and inclusion, Principal of the year from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, and leadership in race equality award from the Network for Black and Asian Professionals. She was promoted to CBE in 2015 for her services to Education. She was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands in 2022.