Peter Knight, Ph.D. is Partner in Knight-Moore
Telematics for Education and Development (http://www.knight-moore.com),
which he founded in March 1997 together with Professor Michael
G. Moore of Pennsylvania State University and President of Telemática
e Desenvolvimento Ltda. (http://www.tedbr.com),
a Brazilian private sector firm. Dr. Knight's clients include
The World Bank; Inter-American Development Bank; International
Monetary Fund; Science Applications International Corporation;
SRI International/National Science Foundation; US Department of
State; United Nations Development Programme, Pakistan; EzGov,
The Rio de Janeiro State Fund for Research (FAPERJ), and Secretariat
of Education, Paraná State, Brazil. He was Chief of the
Electronic Media Center at the World Bank from June 1994 through
February 1997, and before that, Division Chief of the National
Economic Management Division in the Bank's Economic Development
Institute (EDI), now known as the World Bank Institute (WBI).
Of his over 20 years in the World Bank, he worked eight exclusively
on Brazil, most recently as Lead Economist for Brazil (1987-88).
Before joining the World Bank in 1976 he held positions at Cornell
University, the Ford Foundation and the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Knight's received his Ph.D in economics from Stanford University,
a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University,
and an A.B. from Dartmouth College (major in government). He is
sole, principal, or contributing author of 11 published World
Bank studies; author of books on new forms of economic organization
in Peru (1975) and Brazilian agricultural technology and trade
(1971); and over 30 published articles, book chapters, and numerous
unpublished reports and papers. He was executive producer of 12
videos/TV programs dealing with telematics, distance learning,
and sustainable development and Internet development in Africa
(see http://www.knight-moore.com
for recent papers, projects). He speaks French, Portuguese, Spanish,
and Russian as well as his native English.