Peggy Clark

Peggy Clark is president and CEO of the International Center for Research on Women. Previously, she was vice president of policy programs and founder and executive director of Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute, where she also co-chaired the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls and co-directed Aspen Ideas Health. In her 30-plus-year career working on issues of poverty alleviation, global health, social enterprise, and development finance, Clark has also been co-founder and managing director of Realizing Rights, chair of the Ford Foundation Women’s Program Forum, and Save the Children Federation’s first director of small-scale enterprise and credit. She was instrumental in passage of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers and received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Microenterprise from Bill Clinton.