ABOUT JIM CLARK
Jim Clark is a strategic convenor, futurist, and systems thinker dedicated to tackling civilization’s greatest challenges through technology, governance, and large-scale collaboration.
Clark has a long history of founding and leading transformative initiatives at the intersection of technology, public policy, and social impact. He is best known as the Founder/CEO (1997-2021) of the World Technology Network (WTN), a global association of 1,500+ peer-elected top innovators across the entire ecosystem of science and technology. The WTN’s World Technology Awards, presented annually with partners such as Fortune, TIME, CNN, The Economist, Science, Nature, NASDAQ, and Microsoft, among many others, honored the world’s leading innovators "creating the 21st Century." The WTN convened its annual World Technology Summits for almost two decades, as well as events such as the World Summit on Technological Unemployment (2015), positioning Clark as a key facilitator of global discourse on the future in our technology-driven era.
Through the WTN, Clark also served as co-convener and co-lead of the International Congress for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (ICGAI, 2018-2021), bringing together the world’s relevant experts to address AI governance at the highest levels.
In 2024, Clark founded the Bridge Era Institute (BEI). As Executive Chairman, working with the Managing Director, he leads efforts to explore and advance strategies for ensuring society can navigate this chaotic, unstable, and possibility-laden time between the old world that was and the new world just starting to emerge. One of the BEI’s first major project is The Future of Employment & Income Initiative - focused on helping society navigate the massive changes to the job market and human livelihood and identity in this age of the AI transition.
Clark’s entrepreneurial career began in college in 1986, when he founded ACCESS: Networking in the Public Interest, the first national non-profit jobs clearinghouse, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, with satellite offices at UC/Berkeley, Duke University, and the University of Chicago. ACCESS, one of the world’s earliest online ventures, reached over 150,000 job seekers annually and partnered with leading philanthropic organizations and the Wall Street Journal.
He later served as Director for the Non-Profit Sector & National Service for the Clinton/Gore Presidential Campaign/Transition (1992/3) and co-convener of the Presidential Transition Roundtable Series, advising on high-tech entrepreneurship, social policy, and economic development. He has also been involved in starting or assisting various pro-democracy efforts since that time.
In 1993, he founded one of the first Internet companies focused on social impact, partnering with America Online (AOL) to build some of the earliest “make a difference” services online. He was named one of the “New Media Elite” by New York Magazine in 1995.
Clark advises many initiatives seeking to avoid a dystopian future. And, recently he has been helping relevant organizations build highly effective, goal-focused coalitions quickly through Accelerated Impact Partners.
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