My current title is Senior Information Officer at the World Bank in Washington DC. My responsibilities include managing several of the Bank's taxonomies, the core metadata strategy, analysis and design of enterprise search, multilingual information architectures, and perhaps most important of all - semantic analysis applications. My education background - a BA in intellectual history, Russian language and German language, an MA in library science, an MA in Russian history, and a Ph.D. in information science. My Ph.d. concentrations were in Systems Analys, Design and Implementation, and the Economics of Information.

My current research interests are in Web 3.0 Semantic Web, enterprise architectures, cross-language information architectures, knowledge management, and usability. My publications recently have focused on knowledge management issues. My preferred approach to "knowledge sharing" has been in the form of conference and seminar presentations and workshops, as I've not had a lot of time to write and publish!

I appreciate the theory behind knowledge management but even more I like practicing knowledge creation and sharing. I try to live knowledge sharing ideas every day - in the way that I do my work, in the way that I learn and the way I generate new ideas. I think that today's Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies combined with knowledge processing will enable a shift to a new way of working and living. This is also tied in with the new knowledge economy - the new value assigned to intellectual capital and human knowledge is changing the way we work, live and interact.