Peter T. Knight
Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development/CDI
Washington, DC Office
1808 I Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC. 20006, USA
Tel: +1-202-721-0348 (direct); 775-2132
(sec.) 281-4144 (m)
Fax: 202-775-2135 (w)
Rio de Janeiro Office
Avenida Atlântica 4022/302
22070-002 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Tel/Fax: +55 (21)
3576-7674, Mobile: +55
(21) 8136-2701
US Citizen holding Brazilian Permanent Resident Visa
peter@knight-moore.com
www.knight-moore.com www.tedbr.com
www.cdinet.com
Summary of Capabilities and Achievements
- Economist,
training strategist, and information age change agent
with broad international experience in
distance education,
training
strategy/evaluation, e-government, electronic media,
telecomunications reform. international banking, foundation work, teaching,
and research; extensive high-level contacts in Africa (especially South Africa), Latin
America (especially Brazil), and Eastern Europe and Asia (especially Russia).
- Major strengths:
Ability to lead change in complex environments, use of electronic media for distance
learning and other development objectives,
training design
and evaluation, macroeconomic analysis, political economy,
human resource development, language and communications skills.
- Significant achievements:
Co-Founded
Knight-Moore and built international business, especially in Brazil,
where he established a separate Brazilian Company, Telemática
e Desenvolvimento Ltda.,
and within
seven months was named to the Telecommunications and Information Technology
Business Council of the
Associação Comercial do Rio de Janeiro.
Selected to the Board of the
Journal of
E-Government in 2004.
Founded and managed innovative Electronic Media Center in the World Bank using video,
television, videoconferencing, and the Internet to disseminate the Bank’s analytical
work, support lending operations, extend the reach of its external training, and promote
its external relations; helped establish new World Bank grant-making facility (infoDev ) and managed two of its first
eight projects (distance learning in South
Africa , and telecommunications policy
reform in Russia ); managed macroeconomic division of World Bank’s Economic
Development Institute, developing new training programs in Africa, China, Vietnam, Eastern
Europe, and states of the former Soviet Union; led pioneering work on poverty and basic
needs and macroeconomic analysis of financial systems in Brazil.
Work Experience
-
Telemática e Desenvolvimento Ltda
(July 2001-present):
President.
Clients include Ascom PLC, Choice,
Encore Software Ltd. (Bangalore), EzGov, TrustWorks Systems, FAPERJ,
Fundação Rede Amazônica, Instiututo Fernand Braudel
de Economia Mundial, EBS and Nathan
Associates/Presidência del Consejo de Ministros del Perú.
-
Knight, Moore (March 1997-present): Partner, Knight, Moore.
Knight
clients
include The World Bank; Inter-American Development Bank; International
Monetary Fund; EzGov, Science Applications International Corporation;
SRI International/National Science Foundation; US Department of State;
United Nations Development Programme, Pakistan;
Ascom Powerline Communications, Choice, TrustWorks Systems, Rio
de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ); and Secretariat of
Education, Paraná State, Brazil.
- The World Bank (1976-1997):
Chief, Electronic Media Center, June 1994-February 1997;
Division Chief, National Economic Management Division, Economic Development Institute,
1988-1994;
Lead Economist, Brazil Department, 1987-1988;
Senior Division Economist, Brazil Country Programs Division 1983-1988 (promoted from
Senior Economist 1986);
other positions in central policy units, World Development Report 1980 (Poverty and Human
Development) Core Team, Brazil division.
- Cornell University (1975-1976): Council on Foreign Relations International
Affairs Fellow, Program on Participation and Labor-Managed Systems, Center for
International Studies.
- Ford Foundation (1971-1974): Program Advisor in Economics and Agriculture, Office
for Peru, Equador, and Bolivia, Lima, Peru.
- The Brookings Institution (1969-1971): Research Associate, Program of Joint
Studies on Latin American Economic Integration, Foreign Policy Studies Program.
Publications and Video
- Publications:
Sole, principal, or contributing author of
e-Desenvolvimento no Brasil e no mundo: subsídios e Programa
e-Brasil (São Caetano do Sul, SP: Yendis and Câmara
Brasileiro de Comércio Eletrônico, 2007);
e-Brasil: Um programa para acelerar o
desenvolvimento socioeconômico aproveitando a convergência digital (São Caetano do Sul, SP: Yendis,
2006);
Rumo ao e-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2006);
e-gov.br – a
próxima revolução brasileira
(São Paulo: Financial Times Prentice Hall,
January 2004);
11 published World Bank studies (two published
in book form in Portuguese in Brazil) on topics including fiscal federalism and
macroeconomic management in large countries (1994); a macroeconomic analysis of Brazil's Cruzado Plan (1987), a review of Brazil's financial systems (1984), economic reform in
socialist countries (1983), poverty and basic needs in Brazil (1981), and the World
Development Report, 1980; author of books on new forms of economic organization in Peru
(1975) and Brazilian agricultural technology and trade (1971); and over
100 published
articles, book chapters, and numerous unpublished reports and papers.
- Video:
executive producer of 12 videos/TV programs dealing with telematics, distance learning,
and sustainable development and Internet development in Africa (see website for recent
papers, projects).
Languages
- Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish; good command of Russian.
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University, 1970, Economics
- MA Stanford University, 1965, Economics
- BA Oxford University, 1964, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
- AB Dartmouth College, 1962, Government
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