Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark | |
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Professor Gordon L. Clark | |
| Born | Gordon Leslie Clark September 10, 1950 |
| Nationality | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Geographer, economist, academic, consultant |
| Years active | 1977-present |
| Title | Senior Consultant and Emeritus Professor |
| Board member of | Avida International (2015-), Watermarq Limited, IP Group, FinOptSys, Oxford Earth Observation (2018-2024), Social Impact Capital (2019-), |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D., DSc (Oxon) |
| Alma mater | McMaster University |
| Thesis | Regional unemployment and policy analysis: geographical study of Canadian federal unemployment policy (1978) |
| Academic advisors | Michael Dear, Leslie J. King, and Atif Kubursi |
| 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 |
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Gordon Leslie Clark, FBA FAcSS (born September 10, 1950) is an Australian economic geographer, academic, and consultant. He is former Executive Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (2013-2018) with cross appointments in the Saïd Business School and the School of Geography and the Environment. Clark's latest work focuses on the geographical structure and performance of financial markets and organisations. He wrote and co-wrote multiple books in these subjects, including The Geography of Finance (OUP 2007), Sovereign Wealth Funds (Princeton 2012), and Institutional Investors in Global Markets (OUP 2017).