Scott Clark

Biography

R. Scott B. Clark is the Risk and Benefits Officer of the Office of Risk and Benefits Management for the Miami-Dade County School Board, the fourth largest school system in the nation with over 50,000 employees and 340,000 students. Mr. Clark’s responsibilities include the oversight of the District’s Risk Management programs encompassing a budget with annual expenditures of approximately $400 million.

Mr. Clark’s 25-year career with the district includes management of its traditional risk operations including property, casualty, employee benefits and loss prevention programs, as well as the creation of an Enterprise Risk Management platform, protecting district assets which exceed $8 billion and annual budgets of approximately $5.5billion. Previous to his positions with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Mr. Clark was employed in the insurance industry in fields including claims administration, underwriting, marketing, and the creation of self insured programs.

Mr. Clark is a member of the Board of Directors for The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), currently serving as President of the Society. Mr. Clark has served on the RIMS Board of Directors since 2000, previously serving as Secretary/Treasurer, Board Liaison to the Conference Programming Committee, Audit Committee, and Chapter and Membership Services Committee. Over his 20+ years of involvement, in RIMS, he has also served on the Health and Safety Committee and was instrumental in the creation of the Greater Miami Chapter where he has served as President on three occasions. Additionally, he has participated for many years on the Florida RIMS Conference Committee, which directs the annual Florida Joint Chapters Conference, serving as Conference Chair in 1997, 2004 and will serve again as Chair in 2010. He has spoken at many national conferences, including four national RIMS conferences. In May, 2007 Mr. Clark was named as a member of Business Insurance Risk Manager of the Year Honor Roll in which he was selected as one of the top four Risk Managers in the country and the only public entity/governmental Risk Manager having received the reward for that year.

Mr. Clark is an active member of the Public Risk and Insurance Management Association (PRIMA), the State and Local Government Benefits Association (SALGBA), as well as being a past president and active member of the Florida Educational Risk Management Association (FERMA) where he has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and most recently the Hall of Fame Award. He also serves as a member of the State of  Florida Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board, and other statewide task forces, and has also participated as an audit member of the Council of Great City Schools in areas of Human Resources and Risk Management. He was honored in 2010 by the Florida Educational Risk Management Association (FERMA) by being elected into the FERMA Hall of Fame, after previously having received FERMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Mr. Clark also received Risk and Insurance Magazine’s Risk Innovator Award in 2010.

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