Editing Kenneth Clarke (section)

==Corporate, media and other work==
Whilst serving as a backbench MP and as a Shadow Cabinet Minister, Clarke accepted several [[non-executive director]]ships:

* Deputy Chairman and a director of [[British American Tobacco]] (BAT) (1998–2007), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bat.com/group/sites/UK__3MNFEN.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/F5AE03E3BB591A1EC12573140052EE6E?opendocument&SKN=1&TMP=1|title=Unknown title|website=British American Tobacco}}{{Dead link|fix-attempted=yes|date=November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1554302,00.html |title=BAT role makes Clarke unfit for office |work=The Guardian |date= 23 August 2005 |access-date=19 January 2009 |first= George |last= Monbiot |author-link= George Monbiot |location=London}}</ref>
* Chairman (non-executive) of [[Unichem]]<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2734545/Clarke-steps-down-at-UniChem.html www.telegraph.co.uk]</ref>
* Director of [[Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/feb/11/kenneth-clarke-centaurus-capital www.theguardian.com]</ref>
* Member from June 2007 of the Advisory Board of Centaurus Capital, a London-based [[hedge fund]] management company.<ref>{{cite news | title = Hedge fund Centaurus appoints Ken Clarke as adviser | work = Reuters | date = 1 June 2007 | url = http://uk.reuters.com/article/hedgeFundsNews/idUKNOA13935520070601 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130201070333/http://uk.reuters.com/article/hedgeFundsNews/idUKNOA13935520070601 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 1 February 2013 | access-date =24 September 2008}}</ref>
* Clarke is a member of the advisory board of Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.farmlandinvestmentpartnership.com |title=Agcapita Partners LP |publisher=Farmland Investment Partnership |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107222107/http://www.farmlandinvestmentpartnership.com/ |archive-date=7 January 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> a Canadian farmland investment fund.
* Director (non-executive) of Independent News and Media (UK).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe |title= Kenneth Clarke MP |publisher= TheyWorkForYou |access-date= 2 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130703090402/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/kenneth_clarke/rushcliffe |archive-date= 3 July 2013 |url-status= live }}</ref>
* Participant at the annual meeting of the [[Bilderberg Group]] in 1993, 1998–2000, 2003–04, 2006–08 and 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmstnprv/180iii/sp0304.htm |title= Memorandum submitted by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards&nbsp;— Complaint against Mr Kenneth Clarke |publisher= [[United Kingdom Parliament]] |date= 11 July 1997 |quote= Mr Clarke subsequently explained that he and Mr Blair considered that they were attending the conference as representatives of the Government and the Opposition respectively, and stated that "I was quite confident that I was at the time meeting the rules applying to Ministers, and it did not occur to me that the new rules concerning registration could apply to this visit". |access-date= 2 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161128111728/http://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmstnprv/180iii/sp0304.htm/ |archive-date= 28 November 2016 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=RMI>{{cite web |url= https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem.htm |title= Register of Members' Interests |publisher= United Kingdom Parliament |access-date= 2 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160203102450/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem.htm |archive-date= 3 February 2016 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=BGES>{{cite news |work=London Evening Standard |date=15 August 2008 |title= His secret's out: how Georgie met Kissinger |page=14 |quote=Ken Clarke, Peter Mandelson and former mandarin Lord Kerr were also among the select group of British figures at the gathering of politicians and tycoons.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory |work= BBC News |date= 3 June 2004 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm |quote= The group, which includes luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a website. |access-date= 24 September 2008 |first= Jonathan |last= Duffy |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081226042001/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm |archive-date= 26 December 2008 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=BGMI>{{cite news |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/parliamentrmi/0,,-978,00.html |work=The Guardian |quote=5–8 June 2008, to Chantilly, Virginia, USA, to attend Bilderberg Conference. Hotel accommodation paid for by the conference sponsors. (I paid my travel costs.) (Registered 12 June 2008) |title=Kenneth Clarke: Full register of members' interests |location=London |access-date=7 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724125809/http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/parliamentrmi/0%2C%2C-978%2C00.html |archive-date=24 July 2008 }}</ref>

Also as a backbencher, Clarke declared engagement in non-political media work:
* presented several series of [[jazz]] programmes on [[BBC Radio Four]], including one on his namesake, bebop drummer [[Kenny Clarke]]
* wrote a monthly column for ''[[The Mail on Sunday|Financial Mail on Sunday]]'' (£10,001–15,000)
* wrote a weekly commentary or interview for [[Bloomberg Television]] (£10,001–15,000)
* undertook occasional lecturing, on a self-employed basis.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmregmem/memi06.htm |title= Register of Members' Interests |access-date= 2 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170309104049/https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmregmem/memi06.htm |archive-date= 9 March 2017 |url-status= live }}</ref>