Michael Ward works on a variety of municipal government projects at the Center, including charter revision and organizational structure reform, performance management efforts, operational studies, policy research projects, and regionalization work. He co-founded and currently manages the Center’s Municipal Performance Management Program. He also teaches a course on municipal government in McCormack’s MSPA Program. Prior to joining the Center, Ward worked as a budget analyst for the Town of Concord. Ward has also studied innovative urban policy in Curitiba (Brazil) and Singapore as a Thomas J. Watson fellow. Ward has a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA in Sociology from Amherst College.