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Teresa Hillary Clarke, 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Donor Based Scholarships ) 〕 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs ) 〕 the Education Africa’s Humanitarian Award for Africa, the Merrill Lynch/Africa 2.0 Business Leadership Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Africa.Com Recognized For Leadership by Global Business Organizations ) 〕 the International Women’s Society Humanitarian of the Year Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The International Women's Society of Nigeria Presents Its Humanitarian of the Year Award to Africa.com CEO Teresa Clarke ) 〕 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.〔 〕 In 2010, Black Entertainment Television honored Clarke and won the Shot Caller Award on their internationally televised awards show Black Girls Rock! 〔 〕 ==Background== In August 1989, Teresa Clarke joined the real-estate department at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York as an associate. She 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, the Cambridge (Mass.) public-policy & management consulting firm. Her clients in South Africa included companies such as Transnet (holding company of South African Airways), Johnson & Johnson, and institutions involved in the coordination of the education and public health development sectors. Teresa Clarke lived in South Africa from 1995 to 2000. During her time in South Africa, Clarke also taught corporate finance in the MBA program at Wits Business School.〔 〕 In 1999, she co-founded Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa. SSP provides academically talented but economically disadvantaged South African students with scholarships and support to attend private schools. The non-profit trust program based in Johannesburg has provided more than $10 million in scholarships to more than 1000 children. Some 90 percent of the students complete the program. About 90 percent of SSP’s graduates qualify to attend university. For her work with SSP ZA, Clarke has been recognized by the South African government, among many others.〔 〕 From 2004 to 2010, Clarke returned to Goldman Sachs. Her first contribution was to play a key role in launching the firm's Global Markets Institute. She 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. She was also the manager of the GS Africa Aspen Program, a leadership development project for emerging public- and private-sector African leaders created in cooperation with the Aspen Institute.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teresa Clarke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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