Greg Clark | |
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Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee[b] | |
In office 29 January 2020[a] – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Norman Lamb |
Succeeded by | TBC |
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities[c] | |
In office 7 July 2022 – 6 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Michael Gove |
Succeeded by | Simon Clarke |
In office 11 May 2015 – 14 July 2016 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Eric Pickles |
Succeeded by | Sajid Javid |
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | |
In office 14 July 2016 – 24 July 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Sajid Javid[d] |
Succeeded by | Andrea Leadsom |
President of the Board of Trade | |
In office 15 July 2016 – 19 July 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Sajid Javid |
Succeeded by | Liam Fox |
Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities | |
In office 15 July 2014 – 11 May 2015 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | David Willetts |
Succeeded by | Jo Johnson |
Minister of State for Cities and Constitution | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 15 July 2014 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Chloe Smith |
Succeeded by | Sam Gyimah |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 4 September 2012 – 7 October 2013 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Mark Hoban |
Succeeded by | Sajid Javid |
Minister of State for Decentralisation | |
In office 13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Nick Boles |
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
In office 6 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 | |
Leader | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Ed Miliband |
Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells | |
In office 5 May 2005 – 30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Archie Norman |
Succeeded by | Mike Martin |
Personal details | |
Born | Gregory David Clark 28 August 1967 Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Political party | Conservative (1988–present)[e] |
Other political affiliations | SDP (before 1988) |
Spouse | Helen Clark |
Children | 3 |
Residence(s) | Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |
Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge London School of Economics |
Website | www |
Academic career | |
Thesis | The effectiveness of incentive payment systems: An empirical test of individualism as a boundary condition (1992) |
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Gregory David Clark (born 28 August 1967) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2016 to 2019. He also was Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2015 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from July to September 2022.[1] Later, he was the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells from 2005 until 2024.[2]
Clark was born in Middlesbrough and studied Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was president of Cambridge University Social Democrats. He then gained his PhD from the London School of Economics.[3] Clark worked as a business consultant before becoming the BBC's Controller for Commercial Policy and then Director of Policy for the Conservative Party under Conservative leaders Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard from 2001 until his election to parliament in 2005.
Clark served in the Cameron-Clegg coalition as Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2012, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2012 to 2013, and Minister of State for Cities and Constitution at the Cabinet Office from 2013 to 2014. Between July 2014 and May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities.[4] Following the 2015 general election, Prime Minister David Cameron promoted Clark to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.[5] In July 2016, he was appointed as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy by new Prime Minister Theresa May and remained in that role until 24 July 2019. He had the whip removed on 3 September 2019, for voting against the government, before it was restored on 29 October. In May 2022, he was named as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Japan by Boris Johnson.[6] He ceased to be an MP in May 2024, when Parliament was dissolved for the 2024 general election, in which he decided not to stand.[7]
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