Professor Thomas Clarke
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Professor Thomas Clarke is an authority on International Corporate Governance and our resident guru at Kudos Coaching Group on this subject and also with an active interest and authority on Diversity Management.
He is a leading authority on Corporate Governance and has advised boards of Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies on this important subject which becomes increasingly important to organisations and governments.
He is also the author of several acclaimed books on this topic and a sought after international speaker. We are proud to have Thomas on board as our trusted advisor.
Thomas Clarke is an international corporate governance expert and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He contributed to the development of international corporate governance standards at the OECD during the original formulation of the OECD Corporate Governance Principles (1999) and for the UN delivered a research paper on Sustainable Finance (2016) for 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.
He has published definitive works in governance with both Oxford and Cambridge University Press: The Handbook of the Corporation (OUP 2019) and Corporate Governance (CUP 2021). He has published a total of 30 books, 70 book chapters, and 69 academic journal articles on subjects including international corporate governance, sustainability, strategy, innovation, and knowledge management.
He is former President of the Asia Pacific Innovation Network (APIN) an inter-disciplinary association of researchers and chaired the national conference of APIC at UTS in 2014.
Research and Consulting
Thomas Clarke was appointed to the first chair in corporate governance in the UK in 1992, in time for the publication of the Cadbury Report for the London Stock Exchange on Corporate Governance and its great impact on the conduct of international codes of corporate governance.
He was a member of the Task Force of the Royal Society of Arts Tomorrows Company Inquiry (1992-95) funded by 25 international corporations and wrote the original position paper subsequently published in five languages as Rethinking the Company (Financial Times 1994) and was made a Fellow of the RSA. He assisted Professor R. I. Tricker in establishing the first academic journal in the subject Corporate Governance: An International Review in 1992, becoming a member of the original Editorial Board.
