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In January 2007, IDRC welcomed Michael Clarke, the new Director of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) program area.

Clarke takes over for Richard Fuchs who moved to Singapore in October 2006 to assume his new duties as IDRC’s Regional Director for Southeast and East Asia. 

Clarke received his PhD in Parasitology from the University of Guelph, and has also studied at York and Stanford Universities. He has held successive academic appointments at the universities of Guelph, Victoria, Western Ontario, and Ottawa. 

Over the past 15 years, Clarke has also served in progressively senior roles in the management and direction of ICT programs as they relate to development, particularly in the areas of curriculum development and medical education.  He is a founder of the Canadian health and clinical medicine journal, Open Medicine www.openmedicine.ca.

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