OAC Team - Robert Clark

Robert Clark, Chief Audit and Compliance Officer

Robert Clark, Jr., CIA, CCEP, CBM, Chief Audit & Compliance Officer, is a nationally recognized authority in higher education compliance, internal audit, and risk management with over 36 years of industry experience. He joined Howard in July 2020 and has been leading the internal audit and compliance team and has made a profound and demonstrable impact in moving Howard Forward. Prior to HU, he served 10 years as the Chief Audit & Compliance Officer at Clark Atlanta University. Prior to that he served as the Chief Audit Executive at Georgia Tech for 9 years, the University of Nebraska for 2 years, and Audit Manager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 11 years. He has held leadership positions as President of the Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA); President of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)- Atlanta Chapter; Co-Chair for the Security Task Force for EDUCAUSE; Board member and Director of Finance for National Speakers Association – GA; Faculty for College Business Management Institute of SACUBO; Audit, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Risk Management course designer for ACI Learning; Founding member of HBCU Risk Management Consortium. 

Why Howard?

“Having served in higher education for over 2 decades in PWIs, I was aware of and understood, conceptually, the importance of HBCUs. It was not until I was recruited directly by the President of Clark Atlanta University in 2010 and joined CAU that I fully understood and passionately embraced the mission of HBCUs. I witnessed, firsthand, the remarkable transformation of our students and their upward economic and social mobility in a way I had never seen at PWIs. I am driven to use my gifts, talents and experience to impact the compliance culture at Howard University to one of maximum strength.”