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David Ward (born 24 June 1953) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East from 2010 to 2015. He was elected as MP at the 2010 general election after being a councillor for Idle and Thackley ward in Bradford for 26 years. In July 2013 he was suspended from the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary party until September 2013 after questioning the continuing existence of the state of Israel and refusing to apologise for his remarks. At the 2015 general election, Ward was defeated by the Labour Party candidate Imran Hussain by over 7,000 votes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bradford East Parliamentary constituency )〕 ==Early life== Born in Lincoln,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdXYJqw4sU&hd=1&t=1m5s )〕 he attended Boston Grammar School in Boston, Lincolnshire and then qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) in 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bradfordbusinessconference.co.uk/seminar-shining-lights.php )〕 He attended the University of Bradford Management Centre to complete a MBA and a MPhil by research.〔 He then started working at Leeds Polytechnic (later to become Leeds Metropolitan University) from 1985 for the following 18 years as a Principal Lecturer in finance and strategic management and as a Business Development Manager in charge of External Income Generation. Whilst at the University he travelled to Jamaica and Pakistan to develop links between the University and local colleges. In 1996 he obtained a MSc from the University of Leicester.〔 In July 2004 he was seconded from Leeds Metropolitan University to work at Bradford City Football Club on a full-time basis〔 to help the club to build its link within the local community and to engage with the predominantly Pakistani-Bangladeshi community that surrounds the club in Manningham. It is now host to a positive lifestyle centre, which has run programmes for more than 11,000 school children in the past seven years. There is also the football club in the community scheme, which works with 130 of Bradford’s schools. On 5 May 2012 the football museum was closed down and work had begun to turn the museum into a free school to be run by the One in a Million charity but a week before the start of the school term in September the funding was pulled for the school. David Ward has called the move to pull the funding for the school as being "callous, cruel and quite stupid...and incredibly unfair on the parents and children and One in a Million." In 2006 he worked with others to organise the first ever community day for the Manningham area and his work at the club was acknowledged later that year when Leeds Metropolitan University won the Times Higher Education Supplement Award for "Outstanding contribution to the local community". The charity that David Ward set up focused mainly on anti-racist interventions and community cohesion events 〔 and he continues to support organisations such as the Sports Campaign Against Racism (SCAR).〔Ward, D. (26 September 2012) ("Having a meeting now w/ anti-racist campaigners about their work in #Bradford & how I can support them" ) ''Twitter.com''〕 In 2009 he visited South Africa on a British Council 'Peace and Reconciliation' programme.〔 He was elected as Bradford Metropolitan District Councillor on for the Idle and Thackley ward in 1984 and served for 26 years until elected to Parliament in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cityoffilm.co.uk/about-the-odeon/election-candidates-and-their-views-on-our-odeon/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/david-ward/37625 )〕 His specialist area was education and he was a Governor for 30 years at various Special, Primary and Secondary Schools 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/4090511.Schools____joy_over___500_000_reprieve/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/3760856.Schools_to_pay_back___466_000/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://davidward.org.uk/en/article/2009/150973/clawback-amnesty-declared-on-school-cash )〕 and was the Portfolio holder for Education for 4 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/1226713.Lost_exam_papers_blow_to_college/ )〕 Whilst holding this post he also visited Kashmir with a Primary school and Secondary school headteacher to try to forge links with local schools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Ward (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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