Barbara Ward’s vision

Barbara Ward, born in 1914, grew up in a British Quaker-Catholic family that valued education highly.

She attended a French lycée in Paris and later Somerville College, Oxford, where she became one of the first women to graduate in politics, philosophy, and economics in 1935.

Before World War II, she lectured at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as in Catholic circles.

In 1939, she began her career as a journalist, contributing to The Economist on foreign affairs.

Her early life was marked by a strong emphasis on education and intellectual curiosity, which shaped her later work as a thinker and advisor on global issues.