Kimiz Dalkir Author & Editor

Kimiz Dalkir has a PhD in Educational Technology from Concordia University, an MBA and a BSc from McGill University. She is an internationally recognized expert in transfer and retention of critical knowledge. Dr. Dalkir has worked in the field of knowledge transfer for 17 years. As Global Practice Leader, KM for DMR/Fujitsu Consulting, she designed and developed KM systems for clients in Europe, Japan, and North America. Since 2002, she is a professor of Knowledge Management at McGill University at the School of Information Studies where she pursues research in intellectual capital management, knowledge taxonomies, and communities of practice in diverse types of organizations. Kimiz wrote Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice (2005, Elsevier; 2nd ed. MIT Press, 2011) which has had an international impact on KM education and on KM practice and has been recently translated into Korean and Farsi.