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Doug Ward is the director of the Johns Hopkins University Division of Public Safety Leadership in the School of Education. This academic division serves graduate and undergraduate students employed in regional police, fire, EMS, federal law enforcement, and national intelligence organizations. Additionally, it conducts national research, training, and technical assistance serving a wide array of government organizations.

Doug held positions ranging from Cadet to Major during a 27-year career with the Maryland State Police. Prior to retirement in June 2000, then Major Ward headed areas involving organizational development, strategic planning, information technology, criminal intelligence gathering and analysis, senior policy advising, and development of political strategy. During his career, he garnered fourteen years experience in areas involving management analysis, policy development, budget formulation, financial management, legislative analysis and state-wide executive level policy advising. Major Ward served as a key advisor to each of the five recent state police superintendents and worked on a near daily basis with Maryland Governor Glendening and Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and their staff members.

From 1995-2000, Mr. Ward served as a criminal justice advisor to nearly all cabinet-level state agencies through his work on the Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. He has served on and conducted the activities of numerous gubernatorial commissions, task forces and action teams. Mr. Ward was a key member of Maryland’s Safe Schools Statewide Steering Committee, the Lieutenant Governor’s and Attorney General’s Family Violence Council, and the statewide Drug Early Warning System Action Team. Mr. Ward was a cabinet-level contributor in the formulation and implementation of the HotSpot Communities and Smart Growth programs. He is the past president and a current member of the board of directors for the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, a statewide advocacy and service provider organization supporting victims of domestic violence and a member of a national coalition.

From 1988-1994, Mr. Ward managed the $250 million plus State Police budget throughout its formulation, gubernatorial allowance, legislative approval, implementation, and analysis phases. Mr. Ward was instrumental in automating budget analysis in the MSP and was recognized by the Department of Budget and Management as a key expert on the Maryland Hands On Budget Analysis (HOBO) mainframe computer system

Mr. Ward has testified before Maryland’s legislature dozens of times on matters involving the state budget, domestic violence, gun violence, and school safety. Mr. Ward has written over one-hundred speeches for state police superintendents, the governor and lieutenant governor and has participated with the Governor during three presentations to the Maryland Senate and House delegation on Capitol Hill. Mr. Ward has delivered several speeches on behalf of and represented Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at numerous official functions.