Robert Clark, Foundation Board of Directors

Bob Clark is the Director of Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center where he leads a talented team of archives professionals who manage and make accessible the RAC's extensive archival collections documenting the history of philanthropy and its effects. He also engages with the RAC’s records-creating organizations and with the foundation community more broadly to advocate for information governance, records management, and archival programs that are responsive to the digital environment, and he was proud to be a co-organizer of two successful Advancing Foundation Archives conferences held in 2019 and 2023. Bob is active in the archival profession, having served as the Chair of the New York State Historical Records Advisory Board, on the advisory committee for the LGBT Community Center archives in New York City, and on the Board of Directors of the SAA Foundation. From 2001 to 2015, he held various leadership roles at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, including as Supervisory Archivist, Deputy Director, and Acting Director. He also is a recovering attorney, having practiced law in New Mexico for seven years before returning to the archival profession in 2001. Bob holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Texas Tech University (where he first became an archivist) and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.