Olivier Serrat

OLIVIER SERRAT is an author, speaker, consultant, and researcher specializing in action theory. He is currently exploring environmental peacebuilding at Georgetown University. Olivier is the author of Anthropogenic Solutions for Climate Change: Achieving Environmental Peace (Springer, 2025), Leading Organizations of the Future: A New Framework (Springer, 2023), Digital Solutions: Reframing Leadership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Leading Solutions: Essays in Business Psychology (Springer, 2021; German ed. 2026), Knowledge Solutions: Tools, Methods, and Approaches to Drive Organizational Performance (Springer, 2017), and Learning in Development (ADB, 2010). He is also the author of Myth, Philosophy, and Literature: Exploring Thought, Story, and Culture (Springer, 2025), Mere Words, These: 32 Poems in Free Verse (Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2023), and Flash Fiction: 22 Very Short Stories (Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2022). Earlier, Olivier produced Guidelines for Knowledge Partnerships (ADB, 2011) and ADB: Reflections and Beyond (ADB, 2010). During his tenure at the Asian Development Bank, Olivier headed the Knowledge Management Center from 2008 to 2012. Under his leadership, ADB received the Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award for two consecutive years—2011 and 2012. His areas of expertise include environmental management, evaluation, information and communications technology, knowledge management, organizational effectiveness, project design, project implementation, public relations, and strategic planning. Olivier holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Kent, a master's degree in agricultural economics from the University of London, and a PhD in organizational leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.