Howard Ways, III is a Senior Development Manager at WMATA, responsible for leading the Transit Oriented Development of the Deanwood, Congress Heights, Capitol Heights and Brookland Metro Stations.

Howard is also an Associate Professor and Program Director of the MS in Real Estate Development program at Thomas Jefferson University. He has 16 years of higher education experience, including as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate program. He also served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at Catholic University of America and the City and Regional Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University and in the Urban Studies Program at the University of the District of Columbia.  He has nearly 30 years of experience in urban planning, real estate development, affordable housing and architecture and has managed over $900 million of real estate and public facilities projects.

As the Chief of Operations for the DC Department of Transportation, Howard managed the largest public private partnership (P3) in the history of the nation’s capital, a $309 million streetlight replacement program which was named the 2023 DC Revenue Bond Michael V. Hodge Deal of the Year by the Washington DC Economic Partnership.

Prior to that, he served as the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority of Prince George's County, Maryland, focused specifically on mixed income, public private partnership development projects totaling more than $774 million which, upon completion, will produce nearly 2,500 mixed income housing units and 100,000 square feet of retail, $6 million in new property tax revenue and 1,900 new jobs.

Howard attended the John F. Kennedy School for Government's Senior, State and Local Government Officials Program in 2006. Additionally, he has extensive international experience, serving as the Washington DC representative for the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Cities Network, a collaboration of 20 American and European public policy practitioners and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences.

He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials.