In the mid-eighteenth century, Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste D’Alembert began publishing their twenty-eight volume encyclopedia with contributions from Enlightenment greats such as Rousseau, Montesquieu and Voltaire. The Encyclopédie endeavored to categorize and widely disseminate secular knowledge systematically in order to shift people’s thinking toward a secular Enlightenment worldview. It is perhaps fitting, therefore, that Pascal Saura, a former scholar of Diderot and professor of philosophy has been among those leading the charge at the World Bank to catalog and make searchable the know how of its 27,000 employees, consultants, and alumni.

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