Introduction
Economist and strategic analyst with broad international experience in digital transformation, e-development, e-government, distance education, electronic media, telecommunications reform, international banking, foundation work, and teaching. Devoted to leveraging ICT to accelerate social, economic and political development. Current interests: developing new paradigms in economic thought and action based on the concepts of sufficiency and sustainability. See www.sufficiency4sustainability.org.
Expert
Peter Knight is an economist specializing in the use of Information and Communication Technologies to accelerate social and economic development and sufficiency for sustainability. Peter is coordinator of the Sufficiency4Sustainability Network and its webmaster. He is a founding member, researcher and Board member of the Fernand Braudel Institute for World Economics in São Paulo and author and/or organizer of seven books on the Internet and development, including Seeking Transformation Through Information Technology, The Internet in Brazil and Broadband in Brazil. He has held a variety of technical and management positions at the World Bank, Cornell University, Ford Foundation, Brookings Institution and at the Training Center for Economic Development (CENDEC) in Rio de Janeiro. He has a PhD from Stanford University and graduated from Oxford University and Dartmouth College. peter@sufficiency4sustainability.org
Fields of expertise: e-Transformation / e-Governance, Science policy, technology and innovation policy