The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, P.C., C.C.

The Right Honourable Joe Clark has served as Canada's Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Constitutional Affairs, and in several other senior leadership positions. He was elected eight times to the federal House of Commons and was the first and only Alberta native to ever serve as Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Clark has long-standing personal and professional interests in Africa, having served as the Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, which was instrumental in mounting global pressure to end apartheid in South Africa. He has served on the Boards of several Canadian and international NGOs and companies, and is the President of Joe Clark & Associates Limited, an international consulting company; and co-founder of Clark Sustainable Resources Developments, which recently joined forces with Triton Logging Inc. (www.tritonlogging.com) to harvest underwater forests around the world. Mr. Clark is currently Vice-Chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, and Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships in the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence.

Parliamentary Highlights

Chaired

• The Cabinet of Canada (1979-80).
• The Cabinet Committee on Security and Intelligence (chair in 1979-80, vice-chair subsequently).
• The Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Defence Policy (1984-1991)
• The Special Cabinet Committee to discuss a Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States of America.
• The Cabinet Committee on Constitutional Affairs 1991 - 1993
• The Federal-Provincial-Territorial-Aboriginal negotiations which resulted in the Charlottetown Accord.
• The six public consultations on the Charlottetown Accord, 1992
• The Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa 1988 - 1991.
• The Conference of Foreign Ministers of La Francophonie, Quebec City, 1988
• A special Consultation with Foreign Ministers of Latin America in preparation of the G-8 Economic Summit hosted in Toronto by Canada 1988.
• The Open Skies Conference - first joint ministerial meeting of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact 1990.

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

Business Experience - Highlights

Business, Academic and International Responsibilities

• Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, 1993-1994.
• President, Joe Clark & Associates Limited, 1994-present.
• Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, for Cyprus, 1993-1996.
• Member of the Board of Directors of Hughes Canada 1995-1998,
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Bentall Corporation 1996-1998,
• Member of the Board of Directors of Canop Resources 1995-1998.
• Chairman SMG Canada Limited 1996-1998.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Liberty Health Canada, 1996-1998.
• Chair of the Constitutional Working Group created by the Constitutional Development Steering Committee for the North-West Territories, 1996
• Special Adviser on African Affairs, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. 1997-1998