Author:
Geoff Barnard

Author:
Geoff Barnard

Geoff is an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist. Previously head of information at the Institute of Development Studies and a founding member of Panos, Geoff joined CDKN in 2010. Geoff led the knowledge management team for its first two years, helping to develop CDKN’s thinking and approach to knowledge management and communication, and now plays a more advisory role focussed particularly around learning and CDKN’s work with think tanks and other knowledge brokers.

He is also the Chair of the Steering Group of the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, which is an emerging alliance of 40 leading global, national and regional websites specialising in climate and development information, bringing together institutional organisations, research institutions, NGOs and good practice networks.

Geoff has a MSc in Technology and Development from Imperial College London, and an MA in Natural Science from St John’s College, Cambridge.

Most recent content from this author

Feature
22nd May 2012
Trains or ponds - pick your metaphor for knowledge sharing As he prepared to convene climate knowledge brokers in Bonn, CDKN's Geoff Barnard found himself searching for a metaphor for the online world of climate and development knowledge.
Feature
13th September 2011
Putting climate knowledge brokers on the map Geoff Barnard, CDKN Head of Knowledge Management discusses how the Climate and Development Knowledge Brokers Workshop, Germany in June 2011 created a useful dialogue for web initiatives on a successful 'knowledge infrastructure' about climate and development.
Feature
8th June 2011
Seeking a cure for portal proliferation syndrome The symptoms are familiar. You seem to hear about a new climate information portal or knowledge platform being launched every week. You check it out and it seems impressive at first glance. Nice graphics. Promising headings. Ambitious objectives. Cool tools. But as you click further you start to wonder.
Feature
12th March 2011
Postcard from Addis Ababa- When bull elephants fight In this latest in our 'Postcards' series, Geoff Barnard reports from the AfricaAdapt Symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He finds that Africa needs to find a way of blending sources of knowledge if it is to adapt successfully to a changing climate.
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4th August 2010
In conversation... with Geoff Barnard, CDKN Head of Knowledge Management Transcript