Greg Clark (urbanist)

Greg Clark

Greg Clark (born 13 April 1962) is an urbanist, chairman, and global advisor on cities and investment. Clark has advised more than 100 cities and a wide array of bodies including the OECD, Brookings Institution, the World Bank and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).^[1]^[2]

Clark maintains roles as a contributor to leadership in London and other UK Cities. He is a member of the London LEP Board chaired by Boris Johnson, and is Chairman of the London Stansted Cambridge Consortium.^[3] He is a member of the Lead Expert Group of the UK Future of Cities Foresight Project and the UK Ministerial Smart Cities Forum.^[4]^[5] He is also a member of the Crossrail 2 Growth Commission and the West Anglia Task Force appointed by London Mayor Boris Johnson and UK Chancellor Rt Hon George Osborne MP.^[6]^[7]

Early life and education

Greg Clark was born in Wimbledon, London on 13 April 1962 and was educated at Wimbledon College. Between 1981 and 1982 Clark spent time volunteering in Mexico City and New York, which was to ignite his interest in the world’s biggest cities. He went on to Cambridge University, where he read Education and Social and Political Science and was JCR President. He joined the Local Economy Policy Unit (at London South Bank University) from 1988 to 1991 as a research fellow in London economic development.

Between 1994 and 1996, Clark was selected as a Harkness Fellow based at Columbia University in New York City, where he read Globalisation and City and Regional Planning.^[8] From 1996 to 1998 Clark worked as a research scholar in city economic development at the London School of Economics.

Recognition

In 2016, Greg Clark was appointed Global Fellow at LSE Cities, The London School of Economics
In 2015, Clark was awarded CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to city and regional economic development.^[9]
In 2015, Greg Clark was appointed Honorary Ambassador to the City of Brisbane.^[10]
In 2011, he was awarded the commission to write the Honor Chapman Report, created to remember Honor Chapman who died in 2009.^[11] Clark’s report on London’s development as a world city since 1991 was published in 2012 and his subsequent book on London’s past 25 years was published by Wiley Blackwell in December 2014.^[12]
In 2010, The City of Barcelona awarded him the John Shield’s Prize, an award given once a year to the international person outside Barcelona that has done most to promote the city.^[13]
In 1995, Greg Clark was awarded a Harkness Fellowship.^[14]

Roles

Clark performs a portfolio of activities including:

Strategic Advisor, OECD Local Economy Programme,^[15] Paris.
Senior Fellow, Urban Land Institute (ULI),^[1] Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.
Global Fellow, Metropolitan Programme and Global Cities Initiative, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC.^[16]
Chairman, The Business of Cities Ltd^[17]

He also holds roles as a non-executive including:

Visiting Professor and co-Chairman of Advisory Board, City Leadership Initiative, University College London.^[18]
Chairman, Jones Lang La Salle Cities Research Centre^[19]
Co-Chairman New York Region International Advisory Board^[20]
Visiting Professor, Institute for Public Policy, Strathclyde University, Glasgow.^[21]
Fellow, Future Cities Catapult
Global Fellow, LSE Cities, London School of Economics

Career

From 1986 to 1990 Clark’s career began to focus on city economies and employment, including roles at the British Refugee Council, The London Borough of Lambeth, and the Local Economy Policy Unit (South Bank University). In 1995, Clark was selected as a Harkness Fellow and was based at Columbia University in New York City, where he investigated City & Regional Planning and Metropolitan Governance. He spent much of 18 months of his Fellowship as a guest of the US Federal Government, assessing city and regional economic development in 12 US and Canadian Cities. Clark returned to London in 1997, and took up a two-year part-time role as a research scholar in City and Regional Economics at the London School of Economics. Since 2004 he has been a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, City University, London.

Between 1990 and 2006 Clark held leadership roles in London in the sphere of urban economic development including: International Programmes Director at the London Docklands Development Corporation (1990 to 1994), Managing Director, Economic Development at Greater London Enterprise, & Chief Executive of the London Enterprise Agency ‘One London’ (1994 to 2001); Executive Director of Strategy and Communications, London Development Agency (2001 to 2004) and Lead Advisor on City and Regional Economic Development, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2004 to 2010).

Since 2004 Clark has developed a portfolio of advisory roles with global organisations and institutions, and has undertaken reviews of more than 100 cities around the world, chiefly for the OECD and Urban Land Institute. He has directed comparative studies and assessments of London and New York, British and Spanish cities, UK and Canadian Cities, and UK and Chinese Cities. His international roles have included chairman of the International Advisory Committee for the Sao Paulo 2040 Strategic Plan, International Advisor on Strategic Planning in Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Cape Town, and International Advisor on the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan.^[22] He has also been chairman of the International Advisory Committee on Urban Development in Moscow, and chairman of the Advisory Board for Oslo promotion and positioning (TOPPS).^[23] Clark is currently co-chair of the International Advisory Committee for the 4th New York Regional Plan.^[24]

He has advised on governance reform in London, Toronto, Barcelona, Auckland, Sao Paulo, Milan, and Oslo.^[20] He has advised on national policies in UK, Ireland, Canada, China, India, Colombia, Sri Lanka, South Africa¸ New Zealand, Italy, Slovakia, and Latvia.^[25] He has advised on Development Agencies and Systems in London, Toronto, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Cape Town, Shanghai, Bogota, and Madrid. He was previously a Commissioner on the UK City Growth Commission, Chairman of British BIDs (2010 to 2014), a Commissioner on the West End Commission (2012-2013) and Member of the Promote London Council (2009/2011).^[20] Clark is also a former Non-Executive Director of the International Council for Economic Development and the European Association of Development Agencies, The British Urban Regeneration Association, and the Centre for London.^[20]

Clark is also chairman and moderator of summits and gatherings notably the World Cities Summit Mayors' Forum (each year since 2011), Asia Pacific Cities Summit Mayors Forum (2011, 2013),^[26] and the Moscow Urban Forum.^[27] He has led more than 100 summits and events for JP Morgan, Grosvenor, ICSC, INREV, ANREV, IEDC, ULI, OECD, World Bank, UN, The FT, The EIB, MIPIM, LSE, Brookings Institution, and The EU Council.^[20]

Clark is visiting professor at University College London and is co-chairman of the UCL City Leadership Initiative Advisory Board,^[20] He has written on cities and urban investment practices, publishing ten books to date and numerous articles.^[20] He is also chairman of The Business of Cities Ltd, an intelligence and strategy group based in London, UK, that observes/reports on global trends and changes in cities, leadership, and development.^[28] Clark’s book on London’s journey to become a world city was published in December 2014 by Wiley.^[12]

Publications

(with Moonen, T) British Cities in a Global System: What can we offer International Learning 2010, The Work Foundation
(with Moonen, T) The Business of Cities 2013: What do 150 city indexes and benchmarking studies tell us about the urban world in 2013, 2013, Jones Lang La Salle
(with Mountford, D) (eds.)Investment Strategies and Financial Tools for Local Development, 2007, Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), OECD Publishing.
Local Development Benefits from Staging Global Events, 2008, Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), OECD Publishing.
Recession, Recovery, and Reinvestment: the Role of Local Economic Leadership in a Global Crisis, 2008, Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), OECD Publishing.
(with Huxley, J and Mountford, D) Organising Local Economic Development: The Role of Development Agencies and Companies, 2010 Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), OECD Publishing.
(with Moonen, T) Delivering Local Development: New Growth and Investment Strategies Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED), 2013, OECD Publishing.
Leadership of Local Economic Development (forthcoming)
Towards OpenCities, 2008, British Council
Internationalisation of OpenCities, 2010, British Council
Leadership and Governance on OpenCities, 2010, British Council
Managing Diversity in OpenCities, 2010, British Council
The State of EU Urban Development, 2008, ULI
(with Huxley, J) Closing the Investment Gap in Europe’s Cities, 2009, ULI
The Urban Investment White Paper, 2009, ULI
Public Land and Urban Investment, 2010, ULI
(with Evans, G & Nemecek, S) City Branding and Urban Investment, 2011, ULI
(with Evans, G & Nemecek, S) The Urban Investment Opportunities of Global Events, 2010, ULI
(with McDearman, B and Parilla, J) Ten Traits of Globally Fluent Metro Areas (US Version), June 2013, Brookings.
(with Moonen, T) Ten Traits of Metropolitan Global Fluency (Int’l Version) Oct 2013, Brookings.
(with Moonen, T) Europe’s Cities in a Global Economy. 2013, Brookings JPMorganChase.
(with Moonen, T) Urban Innovation and Investment: the Role of International Financial Institutions and Development Banks, 2014, Future Cities Catapult
(with Rt Hon Greg Clark MP) Nations and the Wealth of Cities: A New Phase in Public Policy 2014, Centre for London.
(with Moonen, T) Hong Kong: A Globally Fluent Metropolitan City (A case study for the Global Cities Initiative) June 2014, Brookings.
(with Moir, E) The Business of Cities September 2014, UK Government (Foresight Future of Cities Project)
(with Moir, E and Moonen, T) What are Future Cities? Origins, Meanings and Uses. June 2014, Government Office for Science
(with Moir, E and Moonen, T) Underpowered Cities, November 2014, LSE Cities
(with Moir, E and Moonen, T) The Future of Cities: What is the Global Agenda? November 2014, UK Government Office for Science
(with Moonen, T) Munich: A Globally Fluent Metropolitan Economy (A case study for the Global Cities Initaitive) November 2014, Brookings.
(with Moonen, T) Mumbai:India's Global City (A case study for the Global Cities Initiative) December 2014, Brookings.
The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021 December 2014, Wiley
(with Moonen, T) World Cities and Nation States: Promoting A New Deal for the 21st Century January 2015, Moscow Urban Forum
(with Moir, E) Density: Drivers, Dividends and Debates June 2015, ULI
(with Moir, E, Moonen, T and Mountford, D) Local Economic Leadership June 2015, OECD LEED
(with Moonen, T) Technology, Real Estate, and the Innovation Economy September 2015, ULI
(with Moonen, T) The Density Dividend: Solutions for Growing and Shrinking Cities October 2015, ULI
(with Moonen, T and Couturier, J) Globalisation and Competition: The New World of Cities November 2015, JLL
World Cities and Nations States, Forthcoming (2016) Wiley
The Short History of Global Cities, Forthcoming (2016), Brookings
The Business of Cities, Forthcoming (2017), Routledge

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