Irina Bokova

Irina Bokova

Irina Bokova Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Knowledge is a catalyst for development. This stands at the heart of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – it is a core driver of all UNESCO’s work to...
Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam Photographer, writer, human rights activist. Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. The development lens has largely focused on basic needs. On the availability of material things. For our life to have meaning, we need more than merely the ability to...
Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne

Ewen Le Borgne Process Change, The Netherlands Knowledge for Development is a tautology. Knowledge is for development. Knowledge is development. Personal, communitarian and societal development. Contrary to money and influence (coming through our personal networks),...
Günter Koch

Günter Koch

Günter Koch Member of KM-A, co-founder of the New Club of Paris and former CEO of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) In my ‘former life’ as a computer scientist and software engineering manager, I was constantly confronted with the question of how intellectual...
Suzanne Kiwanuka

Suzanne Kiwanuka

Suzanne Kiwanuka Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, Planning and Management at Makerere University, Uganda According to Hyrum W. Smith, wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied. In order to promote knowledge uptake in a rapidly changing world, the coming decade should be...