Profile The Rt Hon Greg Clark, Chair - Board of Trustees

The Rt Hon Greg Clark is Executive Chair of the University of Warwick’s Innovation District (and Chair of WMG - the Warwick Manufacturing Group). Greg became the Chair of SCI's Board of Trustees in January 2025.

Greg served for 19 years as a Member of Parliament, before stepping down in 2024. He was a senior minister for nearly 10 years, including serving in the UK Cabinet as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Minister for Science and Universities, and previously as Minister for Cities and Financial Secretary to the Treasury. In the last Parliament Greg was elected by the whole House of Commons to serve as Chair of the cross-party Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee.

As a Cabinet Minister Greg was responsible for the development of the UK Industrial Strategy, for the City and Devolution Deals which have established Mayoral Combined Authorities covering half of the population of England, and for proposing and enacting the UK’s commitment to Net Zero emissions by 2050.

Greg was the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Japan and he is the Chair-elect of the Japan Society, the leading independent body in the United Kingdom dedicated to the enhancement of the British-Japanese relationship.

Born in Middlesbrough, Greg was educated at St Peter’s Comprehensive School and then read economics at Cambridge University before earning his PhD from the London School of Economics.

Before entering Parliament, Greg worked for the Boston Consulting Group and as Controller, Commercial Policy at the BBC.

Greg is married to Helen and has three grown-up children.

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