Director, DHS Science & Technology Directorate, Office of University Programs

Matthew Clark, Ph.D., is Director of the DHS S&T Office of University Programs. At DHS, Clark is responsible for developing, managing, integrating, and delivering the results from a $50-million annual research and education program, which includes the DHS Centers of Excellence, the Scholars and Fellows program, and the Minority Serving Institutions program. Prior to joining DHS, Clark spent 11 years as an economist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He established and managed an Economics and Decision Sciences grant program that generated some of the most significant and widely used research results ever supported by EPA. He spearheaded an EPA-wide effort to establish measures of program benefits and cost effectiveness across all agency programs. Clark also managed the quality control and release of all regulatory economics products for EPA’s Office of Water and was an industry economist in EPA’s Office of Science and Technology. Prior to his time at EPA, Clark was an energy and environmental economics consultant for public and private clients, an economist and budget planner for the Washington State Department of Ecology, and a land use and environmental planner for the two largest counties in Washington State. He is the author of over 50 papers, reports, and regulatory and policy analyses. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, his master’s degree from Washington State University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts. Clark was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala in the mid-1970s.