Teresa Clarke
| Teresa H. Clarke | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 8, 1963 California, USA |
| Residence | New York City, New York, USA |
| Occupation |
February 2010 – President Chairman and CEO at Africa.com Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co Co-Founder at Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa |
February 2010 – President Chairman and CEO at Africa.com Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co
Teresa Hillary Clarke (born February 8, 1963), daughter of Audrey M. Clarke and Roy Poindexter, both of Los Angeles, is a prominent American investment banker, entrepreneur, and expert on Africa. Her career has spanned a wide range, from being a managing director at Goldman Sachs to co-founding a scholarship and mentoring non-profit, Student Sponsorship Programme in South Africa. Over the last several years, she has funded and led Africa.com, the largest Africa-related website.
Growing up in California, Teresa H. Clarke comes from a line of prominent women, including her mother and grandmother who were both alumni of Howard University and went on to successful careers in education and community service. Her mother, Dr. Audrey Clarke, retired after serving for ten years as the superintendent of schools in Lynwood, California and later became a professor at California State University at Northridge in the graduate school of education.
Her mother graduated from Howard University in 1958, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude and won a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina that same year. Her grandmother attended Howard as a member of the class of 1933. In honor of their Howard legacies, Dr. Audrey M. Clarke established the Audrey M. Clarke and Elvira F. Clarke Fellowship for International Learning at Howard University.
Clarke has a bachelor's degree in economics, cum laude, from Harvard College (1980–1984), an MBA from Harvard Business School (1989) and a law degree from Harvard Law School (1989). She has served on the board of Southern Africa Legal Services (Legal Resource Centre), the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Opportunity Agenda, serves on the board of the Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa and is an emeriti board member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association.
Clarke is fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has received numerous awards for her work in Africa, including the Government of South Africa’s Freedom Day Award, the Education Africa’s Humanitarian Award for Africa, the Merrill Lynch/Africa 2.0 Business Leadership Award, the International Women’s Society Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Educational Leadership Award, and the Girl Scouts of Connecticut Woman of Achievement. Clarke was named one of the top 25 Women in Business by the Network Journal.
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