Currently, Joe Clark is employed in these areas:

• Public Policy Scholar, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Distinguished Statesman in Residence, School of International Service, American University, Washington DC
• Senior Fellow, Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC
• President, Joe Clark and Associates Ltd.

Joe has been a Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Canada, 1972-1993, 2000-2004, serving as:

• Leader, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1976-1983, 1998-2003)
• Prime Minister of Canada (1979-1980)
• Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition (1976-1979, 1980-1983)
• Secretary of State for External Affairs (1984-1991)
• Acting Minister of National Defence (1986)
• Acting Minister of Justice (1988)
• President of the Privy Council of Canada and Minister Responsible for Constitutional Affairs

Publications and Honours

• Published “A Nation Too Good To Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada”, (Key Porter Books),“Plaidoyer pour un pays mal-aimé” (Editions Libre Expression) 1994.
• Companion of the Order of Canada, Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Pléiade, first recipient of The Vimy Award, Honourary Chief Bald Eagle of the Samson Cree Nation.
• Honourary Degrees from the University of New Brunswick, the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, Concordia University, Grant MacEwan College, the University of King’s College, Halifax, St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

• President, Progressive Conservative Student Federation, University of Alberta 1960-61
• National President, Progressive Conservative Student Federation of Canada, two terms, 1964-1966.
• Candidate (unsuccessful) Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, Calgary South constituency, provincial election of 1967.
• Candidate (successful) Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Rocky Mountain (Alberta) constituency, general elections of 1972 and 1974; Yellowhead (Alberta) constituency, 1979, 1980, 1984, and 1988; Calgary Centre (Alberta) constituency, 2000; and the by-election in Kings-Hants (Nova Scotia) 2000.
• Candidate, National Leadership Convention of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1976, 1983 (unsuccessful) and 1998.
• National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, February 22, 1976 to resignation February 8, 1983; and November 14 1998 to resignation May 31, 2003.

At different times chaired the Cabinet of Canada, the Cabinet Committees on Security and Intelligence, Foreign and Defence Policy, and Constitutional Affairs, the Special Cabinet Committee to discuss a Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States of America, the Federal-Provincial-Territorial-Aboriginal negotiations which resulted in the Charlottetown Accord, the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, the Conference of Foreign Ministers of La Francophonie, and the Open Skies Conference – the first joint ministerial meeting of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact.

Led the Canadian Delegation

• G-7 Economic Summit, Tokyo 1979
• Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Lusaka 1979.
• Launch of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations 1986
• Meetings of the Security Council of the United Nations for the vote authorizing a United Nations response to the attack by Iraq of Kuwait (1990), and regular meetings of the General Assembly 1984-1990.
• Meeting of the Organization of American States at which Canada first took its place at the OAS table, 1989.
• The first session of the Paris Conference on Cambodia, 1989.
• The ninth Summit of the Non-Aligned Nations, Belgrade, 1989.
• Annual meetings of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its Dialogue partners, 1985-1990.
• Annual Meetings of the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Council, 1984-1990
• Annual Meetings of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 1985-1990
• Meetings of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1986-1990
• Quarterly meetings between the Canadian SSEA and the U.S. Secretary of State, 1984-1991
• Official Visits to Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Federal Republic of Germany, France, German Democratic Republic, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, the People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.