Clark Murdock (born c. 1940s) is a senior adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C.–based foreign policy think tank.
Murdock specializes in strategic planning, defense policy, and national security affairs.
From 1995 to 2000, he was deputy director of the headquarters planning function for the United States Air Force.
Murdock has served in many roles in the defense world, including as a senior policy adviser to House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, as an analyst and Africa issues manager in the CIA, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He is an honors graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.