Ian D. Clark (civil servant)

His career in the Canadian Public Service has included positions at the Privy Council Office, Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, and concluded as Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada in 1994.

[1] Clark also served as an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund and as President of the Council of Ontario Universities from 1998 to 2007.

In May 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to "further Canadian public policy, governance and education".

[2] Clark is co-author of Academic Reform: Policy Options for Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Undergraduate Education in Ontario (with David Trick and Richard Van Loon, 2011) and Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario (with David Trick, Greg Moran and Michael Skolnik, 2009), both published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Along with Leslie A. Pal, Ian Clark is the co-creator of the Atlas of Public Management, an online encyclopedia of public policy concepts, curricula, and resources that began in 2008 as a multi-year research project funded by the Government of Canada.