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Peter Ward

Director of Real Estate Development

King's College London

Peter Ward Expert panel member
Peter is the Director of Real Estate Development for King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.  He is leading a programme for the redevelopment of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ campuses, with a combined capital value of more than £2bn over the next decade.  He is also responsible for new capital projects for King’s College London, with an annual recurrent investment of more than £50m.  Both institutions are driven by strategies which include the need to improve the quality of their healthcare, education and research objectives, to improve efficiency and productivity through technological transformation, and to address the climate emergency.

Until November 2017 he was the Director of Healthcare Projects for John Laing, a leading international investor in economic and social infrastructure which delivered more than 20 major healthcare Public-Private Partnership projects and over 40 clinics and primary care facilities during his time there.

He has worked on the development of public infrastructure since 1989 and has substantial experience in the successful structuring and delivery of a diverse range of project financing, PPP and development projects in the healthcare, water and transportation sectors in the UK and overseas.  Since 2001 he has managed the development of healthcare projects with a capital value exceeding £2bn.

Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and has served two full terms as a Non-Executive Director of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  He led the development of a UN standard for the use of Public-Private Partnerships in the healthcare sector for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and remains a member of the UNECE PPP Business Advisory Board.


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