Cathy Clark

Catherine H. Clark is Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and Adjunct Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Her research interests include Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing, Impact Measurement and Management, Impact VC, Debt and Private Equity, ESG, and Business for Good. Clark is globally recognized for her work in shaping how capital, enterprise, and policy can be aligned to drive measurable social and environmental impact. She co-created the original standards and measurement architecture that underpin B Corporation certification and co-authored early versions of the B Impact Assessment. At Duke, she founded and leads the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing, named by the World Economic Forum as one of the world’s top three programs in impact investing education. Through CASE and CASE i3, she has led open-access and executive education initiatives that have reached more than 100,000 learners worldwide, including the Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs Coursera course and the Raising Impact Investment Capital Coursera Specialization. She also co-leads the Strengthening Impact Management program in collaboration with Impact Frontiers and mentors hundreds of MBA students annually through courses, student-run funds, consulting practicums, and fellowships.