Early life and education Clark has a
BEcon and
MA in Geography from
Monash University, a
DSc and an MA in Economic Geography from
Oxford, and a PhD in Economic Geography from
McMaster University.
Academia Clark's first academic post was in the Department of City and Regional Planning at
Harvard Graduate School of Design. He then held an appointments at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon's
Heinz School and
Monash University (1989–1995). was the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at
Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics and was a visiting professor at
Stanford University. Clark sits on the advisory board of Avida International, and has been an
Andrew Mellon Fellow at the
National Research Council. At the
Harvard Kennedy School he led faculty and student-based consulting projects with governmental organisations, and at
Oxford, he has advised major corporations on their global environmental performance. In 2020,
IP Group appointed Clark as the Chair of its Ethics Committee, which was established to oversee the company's Ethical Investment Framework. He is also a member of its ESG Committee.
Research and contributions Initially, his research was on
regional economics, patterns of
employment and
unemployment, and the market forces driving geographical and economic differentiation. He is the co-author of
Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory (
Allen & Unwin, 1986) and the author of
Unions and Communities Under Siege (
CUP, 1988). He has also published research on
political theory as represented by
State Apparatus with Michael Dear (Allen & Unwin 1982) and the role of
judicial decision making in the development of American cities. He is the author of
Judges and the Cities (
University of Chicago Press, 1984). At Oxford, he has promoted research in economic geography and finance and is a co-editor of the leading handbook in the field:
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (1st Edn. 2000; 2nd Edn. 2018). He is also the author of many books and papers on
savings behaviour and financial institutions including
Pension Fund Capitalism (
OUP 2000),
European Pensions and Global Finance (OUP 2004), and
Saving for Retirement (OUP 2012). He is co-editor of the
Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement
Income (OUP 2014). In recent years, his research has focused on the geographical structure and performance of
financial markets and
organisations found in books such as
The Geography of Finance (OUP 2007),
Sovereign Wealth Funds (
Princeton 2012), and
Institutional Investors in Global Markets (OUP 2017). == Bibliography ==