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The Right Honourable Joe Clark was elected eight times to the House of Commons of Canada, and served in Parliament for 25 years, retiring in June 2004. He was Prime Minister of Canada in 1979-80, Secretary of State for External Affairs (Foreign Minister) from 1984- 1991, Minister of Constitutional Affairs from 1991-1993, and Acting Minister of both National Defence and Justice. He served twice as Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, and as National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Mr. Clark is president of Joe Clark and Associates, an international consulting firm based in Canada, and Executive Chairman of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments Ltd, a Canadian company operating in Ghana. He is also Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships in the Centre for Developing-Area Studies at McGill University in Montreal.
He is active in international affairs, most recently (2006) as leader of the Carter Center Election Observation team in the first elections in 42 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and (since 2004) as co-chair of a joint committee of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Government of Cameroon preparing an independent electoral commission for Cameroon.
Among other organizations, Mr. Clark serves on the board of the Canadian Council for Africa, the Canadian Foundation for Latin America (FOCAL), and the International Advisory Board of Governors of the Canadian Institute of Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation head-quartered in London, the Inter-American Dialogue head-quartered in Washington, the Council of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Americas head-quartered at the Carter Center in Atlanta, and the Panel of Senior Advisors to the Auditor General of Canada.