Gordon L. Clark

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]

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.

• Clark's profile at Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment