BIO

David M. Clark is an Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. He is well-known for his pioneering work on the understanding and psychological treatment of anxiety disorders.

Since 2005, he has also focused on how to make effective psychological treatments more widely available to the public in multiple countries. He is an architect of the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme.

He has received Distinguished Scientist / Lifetime Achievement Awards from the British, Canadian, Dutch, and American Psychological Associations. The latter described his work as “pure genius with a real-world application”.