Guy St. Clair teaches at Columbia University in the City of New York. His subject is knowledge services, an approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management (including technology management), knowledge management, and strategic learning. His personal interests are varied, with primary attention given to all forms of classical music (especially opera), art (special interest in the works of the Impressionists), design (focusing on Art Nouveau), travel, and, to a certain extent, natural history (he is a great lover of elephants, thinking of the elephant as one of the noblest of creatures). Guy thinks of himself as something of an old-fashioned flâneur, observing what he sees around himself and learning from what he sees.