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Olivier Serrat is Principal Knowledge Management Specialist in the Regional and Sustainable Development Department of the Asian Development Bank, and concurrent Head of ADB's Knowledge Management Center. He is the focal point for implementing and monitoring the progress of ADB's knowledge management framework, and responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of ADB's knowledge management agenda. In 2009, he wrote Learning for Change in ADB to give timely, practical guidance to support and energize organization, people, knowledge, and technology for learning, and help deliver thereby the increased development effectiveness that Strategy 2020 seeks. In 2008, he introduced Knowledge Solutions (2008-) to offer handy, quick reference guides to tools, methods, and approaches that propel development and enhance its effects. He also manages Knowledge Showcases (2008-), a series that highlights innovative ideas from ADB technical assistance and other knowledge products to promote further discussion and research.
From 2006 to 2008, his brief in the Operations Evaluation Department was to leverage knowledge management to help ADB become a learning organization that continuously improves its development effectiveness and is accountable to its stakeholders. In 2007, he wrote Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank, a perspective of operations evaluation that highlighted accomplishments since 1978 and looked to the future. He also drafted Learning Lessons in ADB to set the strategic framework for knowledge management in operations evaluation. The framework provided the basis for development of annual business plans to deliver knowledge products and services steadily against interfaces with other departments in ADB, developing member countries, and the international evaluation community. Auditing the Lessons Architecture, prepared in 2008, described the knowledge audit methodology developed to tie in with audiences for evaluation.
Olivier joined ADB as Young Professional in 1992. After successive assignments in ADB's Programs Department (East), Post-Evaluation Office, Office of the Environment, Agriculture and Social Sectors Department (East), Strategy and Policy Office, and European Representative Office, he joined the Mekong Department in 2001. In 2002, he initiated the Tonle Sap Initiative, a partnership of organizations and people working to meet the poverty and environment challenges to the Great Lake of Cambodia. The Tonle Sap Basin Strategy that he formulated in 2003 gave a geographical focus to ADB's Country Strategy and Program, 2005-2009 and its annual updates, and marked the introduction of basin-level strategic planning in Cambodia. In From Strategy to Practice: The Tonle Sap Initiative, written in 2006, Olivier fleshed out the strategic frame of reference and explained how the operating principles of the Tonle Sap Basin Strategy were being acted upon.
Earlier in his career, Olivier worked as Economist in Integrated Development Engineering Consultants Ltd. and Overseas Agro-Fisheries Consultants Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, and as Assistant Cultural Attaché in the French Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Olivier obtained an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, specializing in development economics, and a master's degree in agricultural economics, specializing in agrarian development overseas, from the University of London.
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Topics 
Knowledge Management and Learning 
