Chris Harman

Chris Harman BA (Hons), MA, Chartered FIPD, is Interim Chief Executive of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, a UK city heavily involved in the regeneration agenda. With a background in public sector management and consultancy he has also written extensively on knowledge management and the knowledge worker in the e-economy. 

Mr. Harman was a major contributor to the United Nations 2008 Global E-Government Survey  “From e-Government to Connected Governance” and a speaker at the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government as part of the ‘Managing Knowledge to Build Trust in Government’ work-stream.

Mr. Harman  is Co-author of ‘Practical Training Strategies for the Future’ (ISBN 0273633953), 'Knowledge Management and the Role of HR' (ISBN 0273644564), and 'Knowledge Management' (ISBN 1854182307).

Professional articles include “Understanding the Modern Knowledge Worker”, Knowledge Management Review, Vol 10 issue 3, July/Aug 2007, “Doing the Right Thing in a Knowledge Transfer”, Knowledge Management Review, Vol. 6 Issue 1, March/April 2003 “How Human Resources can influence Knowledge Management”, Strategic HR Review, , Launch Issue Vol. 1, Issue 1, October 2001“Knowledge, E-Government and the Citizen”, Knowledge Management Review, Vol. 4 Issue 3, July/August 2001.