Clark G. Gilbert

Clark G. Gilbert
Gilbert in 2019
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
February 11, 2026 (2026-02-11)
Called byDallin H. Oaks
LDS Church Apostle
February 12, 2026 (2026-02-12)
Called byDallin H. Oaks
ReasonDeath of Jeffrey R. Holland
General Authority Seventy
April 3, 2021 (2021-04-03) – February 12, 2026 (2026-02-12)
Called byRussell M. Nelson
End reasonCalled to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
1st President of BYU–Pathway Worldwide
In office
May 1, 2017 – August 1, 2021
SuccessorBrian K. Ashton
16th President of Brigham Young University–Idaho
In office
April 13, 2015 – April 10, 2017
PredecessorKim B. Clark
SuccessorHenry J. Eyring
Personal details
Born (1970-06-18) June 18, 1970
Oakland, California
Alma materBrigham Young University (BA)
Stanford University (MA)
Harvard University (DBA)
Spouse(s)
Christine Gilbert
(m. 1994)
Children8

Clark Gordon Gilbert (born June 18, 1970) is an American religious leader and academic who is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was ordained an apostle on February 12, 2026, filling a vacancy created by the death of Jeffrey R. Holland. He has been a church general authority since April 2021 and has been serving as the church commissioner of education since August of that same year. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Gilbert is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator. Currently, he is the junior and fifteenth most senior apostle in the church.

He was the president of BYU–Pathway Worldwide (BYU–PW), an online higher education organization, from its creation in 2017 until August 2021. He was serving as the sixteenth president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) when he was appointed inaugural president of BYU–PW.

Previously, Gilbert served as president and CEO of both the Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media, having also served as an executive vice president of Deseret Management Corporation (DMC), a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), and as an associate academic vice president at BYU–Idaho.