Kerry Stephen McNamara is Senior Knowledge
Management Officer at the World
Bank Institute. A political scientist and educator
by training, has been with the World Bank Institute,
the training and knowledge capacity-building arm of the
World Bank, since 1996. At the Institute, he develops
new approaches to training and knowledge-sharing that
emphasize leveraging the power of information technologies
and the advantages of partnership. He was one of the
principal designers and planners of the international
conference on "Knowledge for Development in the Information
Age" in Toronto, Canada, in June, 1997, and the "Global
Knowledge Partnership" of public, private and non-profit
organizations that has emerged from that conference to
explore new ways to share development knowledge.
He has been active in the development of the World
Bank's internal knowledge management systems and
in designing tools for external dialogue and information
exchange, such as the "Development Forum" discussion
space on the World Bank's web site www.worldbank.org/devforum.
He is also active in a Bank-wide working group focused
on strategies for rural and universal access to information
and communications technologies in developing countries.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he served from
1993 to 1996 as President/Executive Director of the
Civic Education Project, an international non-governmental
organization assisting higher education reform in
Eastern Europe and Central Asia, primarily funded
by philanthropist George Soros. He has also served
as a faculty member in the Government Department
of the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow
at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government,
and Research Fellow/Deputy Director of Studies at
the New York-based Institute for East-West Studies.
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