RECOGNITION & SPEAKING
Ideas Shaped by Experience, Shared Across Borders
Throughout my career, I have been invited to share ideas shaped by executive leadership, international business, academic research, and entrepreneurship. From conference keynotes and professional forums to university classrooms and media interviews, my focus has remained consistent: helping audiences examine strategy, culture, leadership, and global competition with greater clarity.
Recognition has been most meaningful when it reflects work that creates value for others—encouraging dialogue, challenging assumptions, and connecting strategic ideas with consequential real-world decisions.
Vietnam CFO Forum 2019
Dr. Steven Clarke participating in the panel discussion “Global Trade: The Challenges and Opportunities.”
APPLIED RESEARCH & INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
From the Classroom to United Nations Recognition
In 2020, an applied trade-policy research project grew from the RMIT–Hinrich Master of Global Trade, where I served as Senior Program Manager. Designed to accelerate experienced middle- and senior-level managers toward executive and CEO responsibilities, the program operated under a guiding principle: “By Industry, for Industry.” We worked with leaders from 85 global brands to shape the curriculum around the capabilities industry believed its future leaders needed.
In the opening weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, our first course turned an unfolding global crisis into a real-time strategic challenge. I guided a student research team comprising Sebastian Cortes-Sanchez, Hannah Anderson, Alice Yi, Eddi Cai, Ky-Anh Le, Froland Tajale, Ioannis Georgopoulos, and Chau Cao, with additional teaching support from Steven Olson, a former U.S. trade negotiator whom I invited to join the course.
Together, we examined pandemic-related disruptions in agri-food trade across the European Union, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. Our practical recommendations were submitted to the United Nations Policy Hackathon and received a Certificate of Excellent Contribution from United Nations ESCAP and UNCTAD.
The project demonstrated the program’s purpose: experienced professionals using research, international comparison, stakeholder analysis, and critical thinking to address a consequential policy problem in real time.
United Nations Policy Hackathon — 2020
Certificate of Excellent Contribution awarded by United Nations ESCAP and UNCTAD for collaborative research on strengthening agri-food trade resilience during COVID-19.