Teresa Clarke is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and co-founded the Student Sponsorship Programme, a scholarship and mentoring non-profit in South African.
14 Facts About Teresa Clarke
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Teresa Clarke has served on the boards of Southern Africa Legal Services, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Opportunity Agenda, and the Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa.
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Teresa Clarke worked in the investment banking division for six years before leaving to found and serve as managing director of the South African office of Abt Associates, a Cambridge, Massachusetts public-policy and management consulting firm.
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Teresa Clarke initially played a role in launching the firm's Global Markets Institute.
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Teresa Clarke later moved back into the investment banking division where she led mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions for Fortune 500 companies in the US and Europe.
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Teresa Clarke managed the GS Africa Aspen Program, a leadership development project for emerging public- and private-sector African leaders created in cooperation with the Aspen Institute.
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On February 12,2010, Teresa Clarke ended a 12-year career at Goldman Sachs to focus on Africa.
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Teresa Clarke has lectured at various institutes of higher learning, including Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Tufts, and the Wharton School.
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Teresa Clarke is the writer, producer, and director of Africa Straight Up, a 30-minute documentary made in partnership with MTV Africa and TEDTalks that was released in 2012.
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In 2013, Teresa Clarke was invited to join The White House Traveling Press Corps and traveled with President Obama and his family to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
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In 2014, Teresa Clarke was featured on the Harvard Business School website in a video on Making a Difference.
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Teresa Clarke is fluent in Spanish, French, and Portuguese and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Teresa Clarke was named one of the top 25 Women in Business by the Network Journal.
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Teresa Clarke's second marriage took place at Martha's Vineyard on August 4,2007, to Dr John Edward Ellis, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago.