Early Life and Career
Greg Clark was born in Middlesbrough and attended the local South Bank Comprehensive School. His father and grandfather were milkmen running the family business John Clark and Sons. His mother worked at Sainsbury's. Clark read Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the Social Democratic Party, whist at Cambridge, and an executive member of its student wing, Social Democrat Youth and Students (SDYS). He then studied at the London School of Economics, where he was awarded his PhD.
Clark first worked as a business consultant before becoming special advisor to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ian Lang between 1996 and 1997, Subsequently, he was appointed the BBC's Controller, Commercial Policy and was Director of Policy for the Conservative Party from 2001 until his election to parliament in 2005. Between 2002 and 2005 he was also a councillor on Westminster City Council serving as Cabinet Member for Leisure and Lifelong Learning.
He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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