Biographical Information
J.R. Clark earned the Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
under the Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. He
holds the Probasco Chair at The
University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
and is the author of six books and numerous academic articles published
in
the
United States,
Austria,
Japan,
Italy, Canada, France, India and
Russia.
Prior to coming to UTC, Clark was with the Joint
Council on Economic Education in New York, chaired a large economics department
in New Jersey, held the Hendrix Chair at UT Martin, and was a research fellow at Princeton
University. In 1996, he was inducted
into the
Mont
Pelerin Society and elected to its board of directors in 2006. Currently,
he serves as Secretary/Treasurer for both the Southern Economic Association
and The
Association of Private Enterprise Education, as well as a board member of Kenco Corp.
His consulting experience
includes Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, and publishing
firms as well as performing litigation support for law firms in personal injury,
wrongful death, business evaluations and matrimonial cases. He has received significant grants in entrepreneurship
from the J. Howard Pew Freedom Foundation Trust, is Past President of The
Association of Private Enterprise, and held seats on the boards of the Palmer
R. Chitester Fund and The William B. Cockroft Foundation. Clark holds an Airline Transport Pilot's rating
and currently flies light jet aircraft.