Gordon L. Clark
Gordon Leslie Clark,[1] FBA FAcSS (born September 10, 1950)[2] is an Australian economic geographer, economist, author, and academic. He is former Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (2013-2018)[3][4] with cross appointments in the Saïd Business School and the School of Geography and the Environment.[5]
Gordon L. Clark | |
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Professor Gordon L. Clark | |
| Born | Gordon Leslie Clark[1] September 10, 1950 |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Geographer, academic, consultant |
| Years active | 1977-present |
| Title | Senior Consultant and Emeritus Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D., DSc (Oxon) |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Amalgamation of agricultural holdings in Scotland 1968-1973 (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | J.T. Coppock |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Geography, economics |
| Sub-discipline | Environmental geography, economic geography |
| Institutions | Oxford's Smith School |
| Main interests | The behaviour of investors, long-term sustainable investment, the design of investment institutions, corporate governance, institutional decision-making |
| Notable works |
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Biography
Clark has a BEcon and MA in Economics from Monash University, a DSc and an MA in Economic Geography from Oxford, and a PhD in Economics and an MA in Economic Geography from McMaster University.[6]
As Director of the Smith School, he is an advisor to companies on issues such as long-term environmental performance. With Towers Watson, he led a team of Oxford academics on a year-long consultation with 25 of the world’s leading investment houses as regards the nature and scope of investment in the context of long-term environmental change. Clark holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.,[7] is the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics and is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.
Previous academic appointments have been at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School and Monash University (1989-1995).[1] He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained a PhD presenting the thesis "Amalgamation of agricultural holdings in Scotland 1968-1973".[8]
Bibliography
Select journal articles
- Clark, Gordon L. "Stylized facts and close dialogue: methodology in economic geography." Annals of the association of American Geographers 88, no. 1 (1998): 73-87. doi:10.1111/1467-8306.00085
- Clark, Gordon L. "A theory of local autonomy." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74, no. 2 (1984): 195-208.
- Clark, Gordon L. "Money flows like mercury: the geography of global finance." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 87, no. 2 (2005): 99-112. doi:10.1111/j.0435-3684.2005.00185.x
- Clark, Gordon L., Andreas Feiner, and Michael Viehs. "From the stockholder to the stakeholder: How sustainability can drive financial outperformance." (2015). doi:10.2139/ssrn.2508281
Edited books
- Clark, Gordon L. Judges and the cities: interpreting local autonomy. University of Chicago Press, 1985. ISBN 9780226107530
- Clark, Gordon L., Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, eds. The Oxford handbook of economic geography. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780199250837
- Clark, Gordon L., and Michael Dear. State apparatus: Structures and language of legitimacy. Routledge, 2021. doi:10.4324/9781003119197
Authored books
- Clark, Gordon L. Unions and communities under siege: American communities and the crisis of organized labor. Cambridge University Press, 1989. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511522178
- Clark, Gordon L. Pension fund capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2000. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199240470.001.0001
- Clark, Gordon L. European pensions & global finance. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253647.001.0001
Honours
In 2005, Clark was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),[9] and in 2014 received an honorary doctorate from the Panteion University of Athens.
References
- "Professor 1961-2000 - Records Archives". www.monash.edu.
- "Gordon L. Clark". www.myheritage.com.
- "Professor Gordon L. Clark". Staff. University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- "New Director of the Smith School appointed". University of Oxford. 17 February 2012. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- "Clark bio" (PDF).
- "Notes on Contributors" (PDF). p. 13.
Gordon L. Clark is Professor and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University, holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall, is the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguishing Visiting Professor at Monash University, and is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. His research focuses on the governance and management of beneficial organizations and the behavior of participants in pension and retirement income funds. He holds a DSc and an MA in Economic Geography from the University of Oxford, as well as a PhD in Economics and an MA in Economic Geography from McMaster University. He also holds a BEcon and an MA in Economics from Monash University.
- "Gordon Clark". Fellows & staff. St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- Clark, G. (1977). "Amalgamation of agricultural holdings in Scotland 1968 - 1973".
- "CLARK, Professor Gordon". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.