Sir John Macqueen Ward, CBE, CA

Chartered Accountant

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, FRSE

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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, FRSA

Royal Society of Arts

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, FIET

Institution of Engineering and Technology

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 is a Scottish

Scottish people

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 businessman educated at Edinburgh Academy

Edinburgh Academy

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 and at Fettes College

Fettes College

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.

Ward began a career with IBM

IBM

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 at its Greenock

Greenock

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 Manufacturing Plant in 1966, and in 1991 was appointed Managing Director of UK Government and Public Service Business after working for the company throughout the world. He has subsequently held a wide range of business and public sector

Public sector

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 jobs, including Chairman of CBI Scotland

Confederation of British Industry

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, Chairman of Scottish Qualifications Authority

Scottish Qualifications Authority

The Scottish Qualifications Authority is a non-departmental public body responsible for accreditation and awarding. It is partly funded by the Education and Lifelong Learning Directorate of the Scottish Government, employing 750 staff, based in Glasgow and Dalkeith...

, Chairman of Quality Scotland Foundation and Chairman of Scottish Homes.

His most recent appointments include the Chairmanship of Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise is a sponsored non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government which encourages economic development, enterprise, innovation and investment in business...

 and of European Assets Trust NV

Naamloze Vennootschap

is the Dutch term for a public limited liability company. The company is owned by shareholders, and the company's shares are not registered to certain owners, so that they may be traded on the public stock market....

. He is also a Trustee

Trustee

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 of the National Museums of Scotland

National Museums of Scotland

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 and was Chairman of Dunfermline Building Society

Dunfermline Building Society

The Dunfermline Building Society is a building society based in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It was the largest building society in Scotland and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £3.3 billion at 31 December 2007...

 between 1995 and 2007.

Ward was awarded the CBE in 1995, the same year he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...

, and received a Knighthood in the 2002 New Years Honours for Services to Public Life in Scotland.

He appears at number 10 on The Scotsman

The Scotsman

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's 100 Most Powerful list.