Thomas Clarke

Professor Thomas Clarke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and former editor for sustainability of the Journal of Business Ethics a FTSE 50 journal. He has 200 publications in the field of sustainability and governance. His most recent work is the Oxford Handbook of the Corporation (OUP 2019). He is editor of the Cambridge University Elements in Corporate Governance book series which features works on corporate purpose and sustainability. He contributed to the formulation of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (1999) and for the UN delivered a research paper on Sustainable Finance (2016) in the UNEP Finance Initiative. He conducted the 2012 Census of Women in Leadership for the Australian Government, launched by Governor-General Quentin Bryce. He is the Inaugural Sir Adrian Cadbury Scholar of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) that represents $54 trillion institutional investor funds. His current research interests include the pivot towards corporate sustainability including integrating targets and measures, progress towards decarbonisation, and the circular economy.