New Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment appointed

Professor Gordon Clark FBA, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University, has been appointed as the next director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He will take up the new position in January 2013 succeeding the founding director, Professor Sir David King.

Professor Gordon Clark

Professor Clark is an economic geographer with an interest in global financial integration and environmental sustainability. He is currently leading research into the responsibilities and behaviours of institutional investors in corporate engagement and environmental management. Much of his work is focused on global finance and the investment management industry, including the governance structure and decision-making performance of pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.

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