Kim Clark currently works as a professor in the Marriott School of Business at BYU. Prior to teaching at BYU, Clark served as the Commissioner of Church Education for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During that time, he also served as a General Authority Seventy.
Clark received a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Ph.D., all in economics, from Harvard University. He became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1978 and was named dean of that school in 1995. He served in that capacity until the summer of 2005, when he was named the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho.