A globally recognised knowledge management practitioner, speaker, and author, Patrick started his career in librarianship. He is now based in Ireland and works with clients around the world in public, private and development sectors. He is author of Principles of Knowledge Auditing, (MIT Press 2023), and Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisation Effectiveness (Chandos 2007) and co-author with Nick Milton of the award-winning The Knowledge Manager’s Handbook 2nd ed. (Kogan Page 2019). Patrick advised CILIP on their KM Chartership programme, and is a member of the British Standards Institute KM Standards Committee.