Solveig Ward (1954) is an electrical engineer from Quanta Technology in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1]
Ward is originally from Stockholm, Sweden, where she was born on August 22, 1954; she grew up nearby, in Vällingby. As a student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, she was interested in nuclear engineering, but instead studied electrical engineering; after the first semester of studies, she was the only woman in her class. After finishing her master's degree in 1978, she began her career as an engineer in training at ASEA.[2]