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Gordon L. Clark

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Gordon L. Clark
Professor Gordon L. Clark
Born
Gordon Leslie Clark[1]

(1950-09-10) September 10, 1950 (age 73)
NationalityAustralia
Occupation(s)Geographer, academic, consultant
Years active1977-present
TitleSenior Consultant and Emeritus Professor
Academic background
EducationPh.D., DSc (Oxon)
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisAmalgamation of agricultural holdings in Scotland 1968-1973 (1977)
Doctoral advisorJ.T. Coppock
Academic work
DisciplineGeography, economics
Sub-disciplineEnvironmental geography, economic geography
InstitutionsOxford's Smith School
Main interestsThe behaviour of investors, long-term sustainable investment, the design of investment institutions, corporate governance, institutional decision-making
Notable works
  • Pension fund capitalism (2000)
  • The Oxford handbook of economic geography (2003)

Gordon Leslie Clark,[1] FBA FAcSS (born September 10, 1950)[2] is an 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.

Biography[edit]

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.,[5] 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".[6]

Bibliography[edit]

Select journal articles[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Honours[edit]

In 2005, Clark was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).,[7] and in 2014 received an honorary doctorate from the Panteion University of Athens.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Professor 1961-2000 - Records Archives". www.monash.edu.
  2. ^ "Gordon L. Clark". www.myheritage.com.
  3. ^ "Professor Gordon L. Clark". Staff. University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Gordon Clark". Fellows & staff. St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  6. ^ Clark, G. (1977). "Amalgamation of agricultural holdings in Scotland 1968 - 1973".
  7. ^ "CLARK, Professor Gordon". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.

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