[8][9] His mother was Dorothy Esi Mensima Clerk, née Holdbrook, of Cape Coast and Ga Mashie.
His paternal grandfather, Charles Emmanuel Clerk (died 14 November 1938) worked in the Gold Coast Civil Service as an interpreter and Secretary to the Governor, and earlier, he was a newspaper publisher in Nigeria.
[15] His great-grandaunt was Regina Hesse (1832 –1898), a pioneer educator and school principal who worked with the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast.
[15] His granduncle, Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862 – 1961), a Basel-trained theologian was elected the first Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1918 to 1932[16][12] and a founding father of the all boys’ boarding high school, the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School established in 1938.
[18][19] Another uncle, Theodore S. Clerk (1909 – 1965) was the first Ghanaian architect who planned and developed the harbour metropolis, Tema.
Clerk had his early education at Presbyterian and Seventh-day Adventist schools in Osu and Bekwai in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions respectively.
[1][2][4][5][6] Over the course of his career, he has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters and abstracts pertaining to the science of sleep.
[1] Clerk has done medical outreach work in the United States, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire and his native Ghana.
[32] He served as the Director of Sleep Medicine Services, an affiliate of the O'Connor Health Center based in San Jose, California.
[34][failed verification][35][failed verification] Alexander Clerk is the President of the Valley View University Foundation, established to promote academic excellence and scholarship at the Valley View University located in Oyibi, on the Dodowa-Nsawam Road In Ghana.