Organization Structure

Message from Chairperson

KMGN has grown, but our challenge is to rise to the next level: becoming truly collaborative and co-creative. Our strategy and culture must be sustainable, scalable, and independent.

Let us involve as many members as possible to create value and forge partnerships for mutual benefit — for KMers,  every network, KM discipline, and KMGN.

The more value we create, the stronger our connections become. Together, we will shape a future where Knowledge Management drives prosperity worldwide.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Let’s take KMGN to new heights.

Olga Smirnova, KMGN Chair 2025 

KMGN is a global partnership of KM networks which continually co-create and share value-added KM assets and ideas. To do it more efficiently we institutionalised KMGN in 2021. 

The Board of Directors asserts control of the decision making. 

Co-Leading Team

Mentor (Chair 2024)

Manfred Bornemann, GfWM

KMGN Chair (2025)

Olga Smirnova, SKIMC

Chair Designate (2026)

Ved Prakash, India KM Society 

KMGN has a mentoring system that allows us to continuously train strong community leaders. Board of Directors members elect a new Chair every year. 

To provide him or her with necessary knowledge, there is a system of co-leading team. The current Chair is backed up by the support of the Ex-Chair and the Chair Designate. It also allows us to ensure collaboration at all levels of the structure. 

KMGN Committees

KMGN has a single, understandable and accepted by the Board of Directors development vector. At the same time, each individual committee has its own initiatives, strategy, tasks and a plan for its implementation. This does not mean that the committees conduct separate activities from the entire network. This suggests that by fulfilling their KPIs, individual units catalyze the overall network strategy. We know what everyone should do to drive and develop KMGN.  

2. Each committee is responsible for certain results

3. We are continuosly learning and improving our collaboration skills

4. We practice what we preach

The List of Committees and Their Roles

New Network Onboarding

Committee Responsibilities: 

Leader: Ved Prakash

Partnerships & Collaboration

Committee Responsibilities:

Co-leaders: Vadim Shiryaev, Arthur Shelley

Communication Activities & Interaction

Committee Responsibilities:

Leader: Rudolf D'Souzara
Member: Ritu Grover

Digital Presence

Committee Responsibilities:

Co-leaders: Ved Prakash, Olga Smirnova
Members: Eli Miron, Hazli Mohd

Positioning and Value Proposition Co-creation

Committee Responsibilities:

Co-leaders: Olga Smirnova, Faiz Selamat, Daria Ermakova

Designing the future of KM

Committee Responsibilities:

 ◦ Applied research

 ◦ Courses 

 ◦ Special projects.

Co-leaders: Vincent Ribiere, Moria Levy

KMGN Assets Development

Committee Responsibilities:

Leader: Faiz Selamat
Member: Stuart French


Network Leaders

David

Williams

Australian Society of Knowledge Management

email 

Manfred Bornemann

Gesellschaft fuer Wissensmanagement e V.

mail 

Patrick

Prieur

Club Gestion Des Connaissances

mail 

Andreas

Matern

Gesellschaft fuer Wissensmanagement e V.

mail 

Eric

Tsui

Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society

mail 

Ved

Prakash

India KM Society

mail 

Hary

Febriansyah

KM Society of Indonesia

mail 

Moria

Levy

KM Israel

mail 

Hideo

Yamazaki

KM Society of Japan

mail 

Vadim

Shiryaev

Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Management Community (SKIMC)

mail 

Rajesh

Dhillon

KM Society of Singapore

mail 

Refiloe

Mabaso

KM South Africa

mail 

Pavel

Kraus

Swiss Knowledge Management Forum

mail 

Vincent

Ribiere

Innovation & Knowledge Management Club

mail 

Dr. Annie

Green

International Institute for Knowledge & Innovation

mail