J.R. Clark

J.R. Clark earned a PhD in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute under Nobel Laureate James Buchanan and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Princeton. He currently holds the Probasco Distinguished Chair at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the author of seven books and more than 130 academic articles. In 1996, he was inducted into the Mont Pèlerin Society, elected to its board of directors in 2006, served as vice president from 2010-2012, and currently serves as treasurer. In 2012-13 he was a vice president at the John Templeton Foundation and currently serves as secretary/treasurer for The Association for Private Enterprise Education. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot’s rating and currently flies light jet aircraft.