Denise Bedford is Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Communication Culture and Technology; adjunct faculty at Schulich School of Business, York University, Visiting Scholar University of Coventry; and a Distinguished Practitioner/Fellow with U.S. Department of State. She teaches graduate courses in knowledge management, enterprise architecture, semantic analysis, data sciences, and is engaged in research in all of these areas with colleagues around the world. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management, and is an advisory board member of ICKM, ECKM, ICICKM and ECIC international conferences. From 1996 to 2015, Dr. Bedford was Senior Information Officer, World Bank. She retired from the World Bank in 2010 to become the Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, Kent State University. Dr. Bedford retired from Kent State University in 2015. Dr. Bedford holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Russian History from University of Michigan, a Master of Science in Librarianship, and a Bachelor’s degree in Russian and German Language, and History.