Global Advisors

The individuals showcased as Global Advisors below include current and former leaders of leading project management professional societies and organizations around the world. These individuals are members of the Global Advisory Panel for PMForum.org, the parent organization of PM World Today and www.pmforum.org.  With their experience and insight, they provide guidance to the managing editor on matters associated with the world of professional project management.

 

 

 

Russ Archibald





Russell Archibald

Global Advisor

Russell Archibald, PhD (Hon), PMP, PMI Fellow, is a globally
recognized author, consultant and lecturer on project management.  With a career spanning more than 50 years, Russ has broad international experience in engineering, operations, program and project management. He has experienced three project management related careers: Management Consultant, Corporate Executive, and Military/Aerospace. In recent years, Russ has consulted to a wide variety of large and small organizations in many industries worldwide. Russ Archibald is a Fellow and Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (member No. 6, one of the five original trustees), an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Project Management (APM) in the UK, and is listed in Who's Who in the World.  Russ is the author of the best selling book, Managing High Technology Programs and Projects (3rd edition 2003) and the co-author of Network Based Management Information Systems (PERT/CPM) (1967).  Russ has presented many articles and papers over the years at PMI and International Project Management Association (IPMA) conferences in North America, South America, and Europe, and is widely published in periodicals on professional project management. He holds Bachelor of Science (University of Missouri) and Master of Science (University of Texas, Austin) degrees in Mechanical Engineering.  As a pioneer in the field, Russ received an honorary Ph.D. in strategy, program, and project management from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille (ESC-Lille) in Lille, France in August 2005.  Currently residing in Mexico, Russ Archibald’s personal website can be found at www.russarchibald.com, and he can be contacted at . 

 

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Martin Barnes

Martin Barnes
Global Advisor

Dr. Martin Barnes, PhD, is currently President of the Association for Project Management (APM), the professional body for project managers in the UK. He was a founding member (no. 10) of APM in 1972 and has been an active APM leader since that time. He was APM Chair in the 1980s and was named an APM Fellow in 1995.  Martin has a civil engineering degree from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. His doctorate was awarded in 1971 for research into improved methods of financial control for engineering projects. Martin Barnes invented the classic Time/Cost/Quality triangle and other project management techniques over the years. He built up his own PM business over 15 years until it merged with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1985. Now a consultant in project management, Martin was also Executive Director of the Major Projects Association (MPA) for nine years until 2006. Dr Barnes has advised on significant projects in many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, for the World Bank, other funding agencies, governments, promoters and major contractors. He has worked on projects in the engineering, defense, aerospace, IT, financial, business change and media sectors. Martin’s BBC television programme on project management has been used as a training aid in many countries. He has acted as expert witness in a number of arbitrations concerning major projects.  Martin led the team that produced the New Engineering Contract (NEC), a system of contracts designed to facilitate and stimulate the use of modern project management across all the contributors on a project. The NEC is now being used in over 20 countries and has been adopted by the UK government for all publicly funded construction projects. Martin Barnes has been active in the IPMA since 1972, having attended all but one of its world congresses since that year.  He presented papers at most of them. He is a Fellow of IPMA and a former board member and  Chairman of its Council of Representatives. Dr Barnes is a recipient of the Chartered Institute of Management’s Special Award and of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Watson Medal in the UK, both for his personal contributions to the development of project management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK’s highest engineering recognition, and is a Churchill Fellow.  Martin Barnes lives near Oxford and can be contacted at .

 

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Gilles Caupin

Gilles Caupin
Global Advisor

Mr. Gilles Caupin, is former President and Chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA).  He is one of the founders and a past-President of the French project management association AFITEP, past-Chairman and Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), past-Chair and Honorary Fellow of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and past-Chair of the Global Project Management Forum initiative. Mr. Caupin is a Certified Cost Engineer from AFITEP (ICEC system), a lifetime member of the American Association of Cost Engineers International (AACEI), a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (Member N° 6558), a founding member of the first PMI Chapter in France, a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm), a founding member of AFITEP and SMAP in France, an Honorary Member of APOGEP (Portugal), and an honorary Fellow of PMA (India).  He is presently Chair of the IPMA Certification Management Board, first assessor and international validator for several IPMA certification bodies, and has played a leadership role (as a member and chairman of the Certification Validation Management Board) in the development of the IPMA Certification System since 1994.  Gilles Caupin has over 40 years of experience in projects and project management, in a variety of fields and industries. Mr. Caupin has a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lille in Paris.  He has owned his own consulting practice, Caupin & Associates, for many years and, although currently semi-retired, is available for short assignments. Gilles has presented papers, speeches and workshops on project management around the world for the last twenty years and is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the world of professional project management.  Gilles can be contacted at .

 

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Paul Dinsmore

Paul Dinsmore
Global Advisor

Paul Dinsmore is President and principal consultant for Dinsmore Associates, an international project management and organizational change consultancy with global offices based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Paul is a globally recognized author, expert and authority on the subject of modern project management. A long time member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Paul has been honored with PMI’s Distinguished Contributions Award as well as the prestigious Fellow Award.  He is one of the early PMPs -- Project Management Professionals (PMP number 129) certified by the Institute. Paul participated as a member of the PMI Standards (PMBOK) and Research Committees, is a former director of PMI’s Educational Foundation, and is founder and counselor of PMI Chapters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. Paul Dinsmore works as consultant and keynote speaker in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a graduate in engineering from Texas Tech University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and Postgraduate in Management by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.  He is the author of 12 books published in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Korea. Among them: How to Become a Project Management Professional; Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management; Creating The Project Office – A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change, and the AMA Handbook of Project Management.  For more information about Paul or Dinsmore Associates, visit www.dinsmore.com.br.

 

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Adesh Jain

Adesh Jain
Global Advisor

Mr. Adesh Jain, M. Eng, CPP, MPD, is a global advisor for PMForum, Inc.  Mr. Jain is also Managing Director of the Centre for Excellence in Project Management Ltd. (India), President of PM Guru, Inc. (USA), and Honorary President of Project Management Associates (PMA - India).  Adesh is the immediate past president and current Chair of the Council of Delegates for the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and is Chair of the IPMA Nation to Nation Forum.  Adesh’s career includes 40 years of project-oriented work, including projects for Litton Industries and Control Data Corporation in the USA in the early 1970s. In 1973, Adesh returned to India where he became No. 2 in one of the largest steel plants in India. In 1975, Adesh was asked by Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, the largest Indian Government engineering undertaking, to head their IT and Project Management services, the youngest CEO ever to head a division there. He became Chairman of the Heavy Engineering Group in 1982.  In 1991, the President of India honored him with a Fellowship award for laying a strong foundation for the IT industry in India. He has since been conferred with 6 major awards in India, including the 'Gem of India' award. Adesh started the Centre for Excellence in Project Management in 1992, and founded Project Management Associates (PMA), India - a-not-for-profit registered society in 1993.  He was elected to the steering committee for the Global PM Forum in 1996 and received a Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in the USA in 1997.  In January 1999, Adesh became the first non-European to become a Vice President of IPMA, serving three terms through 2004. He was elected President of IPMA for 2005 and IPMA Chair for two years beginning January 2007.  Adesh has addressed or trained over 50,000 people world wide, has made over 40 keynote presentations, is author of the book New Dimensions in Project Management” (1992), and has authored over 50 articles on project management. Since 1999, Adesh has contributed significantly to modern PM in China where he has trained over 2,000 professionals. He is Honorary Chairman of the China Project Management Committee (CPMC), the first non-Chinese to enjoy such a privilege. In 2001, he was invited to give a keynote presentation in the Great Hall of China at a UNIDO conference. During the last two years, Adesh has been a keynote speaker at major conferences in Abu Dhabi, China, Sweden, Thailand, and Turkey.  For the last ten years, he has organized and managed an international PM conference in New Delhi, and he was the organizer and project manager of the 19th IPMA World Congress held in New Delhi in November 2005, the first IPMA congress outside of Europe and the largest IPMA congress ever held.  Adesh Jain has a BS in Mathematics and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a MS in Control Systems from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  Adesh received the IPMA Honorary Fellowship award in October 2006. Adesh divides his time between Asia, India, Europe and the USA, and can be contacted at .   Additional information about Adesh Jain can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/03/adesh-jain-chair-of-ipma-is-named.html.

 

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Eric Jenett

Eric Jenett
Global Advisor

Eric Jenett has spent over 55 years working in project environments with increasing levels of responsibility, including technical design through chief process engineer, engineering vice president, corporate vice president, project manager and project director. After receiving his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, Eric spent a majority of his career with Brown & Root Corporation in Houston, Texas, USA retiring in 1989 as Corporate Vice President. During his career, Eric had experience working on a wide variety of project types in the USA and abroad. He is particularly proud of having started, executed and closed out every project on which he had project management responsibilities. Eric was one of the founders of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1969 (he is PMI member #3), and served as PMI President in 1971, Chairman of the PMI Board of Directors in 1972, and PMI Secretary during 1975-76. He was instrumental in founding the Houston PMI Chapter (the first PMI Chapter chartered) and served as Houston Chapter President and Chair. He also helped organize PMI’s first regional seminar in 1976, which evolved into the annual Seminars/Symposium and now Global Congresses. His PMI recognitions include Distinguished Contribution (1975) and PMI Fellow (1982); he also carries the distinction of PMP #1 (ret.). PMI’s “Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award” is named in his honor. Eric was also an early member of the American Association of Cost Engineers International (AACEi), having attended their formation meeting in 1956. He has been a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChe) for over 40 years and was a registered engineer in Texas until his retirement. Eric has written and lectured on both technical and project management topics and authored over 20 professional papers and handbook contributions, including several for PMI publications and for the Houston PMI Chapter. Only partially in jest he describes his lifetime goal and guiding principle as being: to hunt down and eradicate the existence, acceptance and practice of the project management paradigm that in effect says: the project manager operates to solve the problems of today by tomorrow applying the techniques of yesterday.

 

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Brian Kooyman

Brian Kooyman
Global Advisor

Brian R. Kooyman, B. Arch R.A.I.A., F.A.I.P.M., M.A.I.C.D., M.P.D, is Managing Director, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Tracey, Brunstrom & Hammond Group, based in Sydney, Australia. Brian is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University in Western Australia, Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the University of Technology Sydney in New South Wales, and Honorary Associate in the School of Government at the University of Sydney. Brian is the past National President of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and was Chairman of the Global Council of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was a member and the Chair of PMI’s Nominating Committee for 2001 and 2002. and is currently the Vice Chair of PMI’s Ethics Review Committee. He has been a keynote speaker at project management conferences in Australia, India, South Africa, and the USA, and is well known throughout the world of professional PM. Brian has over 35 years experience on a wide variety of projects and programs, and has been directly involved in several famous Australian projects, including The Sydney 2000 Olympics, The Sydney Harbour Casino (NSW), The National Biological Standards Laboratory (ACT), The Darling Harbour Redevelopment (NSW), and Federation Square (Vic). Brian also has extensive experience as an Expert Witness for such International projects as The Australian Embassy in Beijing, The Australian High Commission in Geneva, The Australian Embassy in Hanoi, Mt Worsley Aluminium Refinery (WA), and The Roi Namur Sewerage Treatment Plant (Marshall Islands). Brian has achieved workplace assessment against the Australian Project Management Competency Standards, at Master Project Director Level. Tracey, Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH) is one of the largest independent and privately owned project and strategic management companies in Australia, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth. The organization specializes in strategic and project management services for the Construction, IT and Telecommunications industries. Brian has a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of New South Wales (1972), and was named Managing Director of TBH in 1995. Additional information about TBH can be found at www.tbh.com.au. Brian can be contacted at .

 

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Harvey Levine

Harvey A. Levine
Global Advisor

Mr. Harvey Levine, PMI Fellow and well-known project management (PM) author and consultant, has agreed to become a global advisor for PMForum.org.  He is one of the most widely respected authorities on the subject of PM software and practices in the United States. He is also a leading advocate and mentor in the expanding field of Project Portfolio Management. Harvey is a Principal with The Project Knowledge Group, a PM consultancy based in New York and California.  A former President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Harvey A. Levine has over 44 years of PM experience, including nearly 25 years with the General Electric Company. In 1986, Mr. Levine founded The Project Knowledge Group, a consulting firm specializing in building PM competencies and providing guidance, training and services related to PM software selection, evaluation & implementation, and PM using microcomputers. Harvey Levine is one of the leading consultants to the PM software industry in the USA. He has provided evaluation, feedback and product development services to dozens of the leading vendors in this field, and continues to provide several vendors with software evaluation, training, development, and general support.  Mr. Levine has also been recognized as a PM software industry watchdog, and a PM software “guru” for his knowledge, understanding, and insights regarding both vendor and user issues.  He still provides PM consulting services to a wide variety of businesses in both the private and government sectors. Mr. Levine has been Adjunct Professor of Project Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston University in the United States. He also conducts lectures, workshops & seminars at other schools, symposia and organizational meetings; and in-house seminars and training sessions for corporate clients. Mr. Levine is the author of three books: "Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits" (recently published by Jossey-Bass); "Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools" (John Wiley & Sons 2002); and "Project Management using Microcomputers" (Osborne/ McGraw-Hill 1986).  He is a frequent contributor to various technical and software publications on PM, and was feature editor of the PM Software Forum in PMI’s Project Management Network magazine, for 13 years. He contributed chapters to several important PM books, including Project Management Handbook (2nd Ed. - VNR), Handbook of Project Management (AMA), and The Field Guide to Project Management (VNR). He has published over 240 articles and whitepapers on PM in the past 15 years. Mr. Levine served as President and Chairman of the Board of PMI during 1985-86, received PMI's Distinguished Contribution to Project Management award in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of PMI in 1998.  Harvey divides his time between upstate New York and San Diego, California in the USA, but can be contacted at any time at .  Additional information about Harvey Levine can be found on his website at http://home.earthlink.net/~halevine/

 

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Louis J. Mercken

Louis J. Mercken
Global Advisor

Louis J. Mercken, MBA, PMP is an International Partner and Chairman of the Threon Group, a leading international organization in Project Management Services, with facilities in most major countries in Europe. Threon specializes in delivering worldwide Project Management Excellence Education and Coaching to large international companies. His organization also provides Executive Consulting in Portfolio, Program and Project Management to the Boards of major companies. Threon started in May 2001 and developed in 5 years time into one of the leading European companies in the field of Project Management. After starting his career with Ford, Louis worked in Exxon where he took up several managerial and executive positions in IT and Finance. In his last assignment from 1988 to end of 1991, he was the European IT Executive responsible for all cross-business group Shared Services and European Coach for Employee Development for all IT individuals.   During the last 20 years, Louis has worked as a senior executive with large multinationals such as Computer Science Corporation in Europe, and La Général de Belgique, the largest Belgian industrial and banking group. Louis has been a PMI member since early 1995 and was a founder, Vice-President and president of the PMI Benelux chapter, a chapter covering 3 countries that grew from a starting membership of 63 to more than 600. He served as a Director at large and Member of the PMI Board of Directors during 2002-2004.  In 2004 he was re-elected to the PMI Board of Directors and then elected Chair of the PMI Board in 2005, the first non-North American to fill that position.  Louis is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and holds degrees of Bachelor in Economics, MBA in Finance/Accountancy, MBA in Operational Research and an additional degree in Computer Sciences. In 1982 he followed the INSEAD Management Program and the IMEDE (Switzerland) extended program Finance for non-finance Executives. From mid 97 to mid 2001, he was visiting professor in Project Management Excellence at the International Institute for Project Management at the Leonardo de Vinci University in Paris-La Défense. Since October 2002 up to now, Louis is Executive Professor for a Project Management Excellence Program for UAMS (Universities Antwerp Management School). Louis is a Belgian citizen and speaks Dutch, English, French and German fluently.  He lives near Antwerp and can be contacted at .  

 

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Peter Morris PhD

Peter Morris, PhD
Global Advisor

Peter Morris, PhD, is a Global Advisor for PMForum in the United Kingdom.  One of the most widely recognized figures in the project management profession in Great Britain and throughout the world, Dr. Morris is also currently Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk) and Executive Director of INDECO, a leading consultancy in the management of projects (www.indeco.co.uk). Peter is also currently a Vice President and was previously Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM), the professional body for project management in the UK. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the Switzerland-based federation of national project management societies.  He is a (Honorary) Fellow of APM, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  He has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in the USA since 1976.  His research has largely been on the competencies required to develop and deliver projects and programs successfully. He is the principal proponent of ‘the management of projects’ perspective, as illustrated in The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley, 2005); The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994) and The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987). He has also worked on the linkage between corporate and project strategy (Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy (PMI, 2004)). He is the author of over 110 papers and was the recipient of the PMI 2005 Research Achievement Award.  He is on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Project Management, the Project Management Journal, and the Journal of Project Management.  Dr. Morris has consulted widely, with clients including AstraZeneca, British Airways, British Gas, British Petroleum, Ericsson, FKI, Fujitsu, GSK, Land Securities, National Australia Bank, Pfizer, PowerGen, Shell, Skanska, Spirent and Unilever amongst others. He was previously Professor of Engineering Project Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).  He was a main board director of Bovis Ltd., one of the UK’s leading international construction project management firms.  He was also previously Executive Director of the Major Projects Association, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, a senior consultant with Arthur D Little, a senior consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, and an engineer with Sir Robert McAlpine.  

 

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Marcio Prieto

Marcio Pietro
Global Advisor

Considered one of the fathers of modern project management in Brazil, Marcio Pietro was one of the founders of the first chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) outside North America in 1978.  Since 1995, he has led the resurgence of the PM profession in Brazil, resulting in new PMI chapters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other states and cities around the country.  President of the PMI Brazil chapter during 1978-80 and again during 2002/2006 of the Sao Paulo chapter, Mr. Pietro is widely known throughout the Americas as an active leader in the PM profession.  He is currently a Steering Team member of PMI’s global Community Transformation Project.  With a civil engineering degree from Sao Paulo University, Mr. Prieto has over 35 years of experience in a wide range of projects and PM related activities all over the world.  He is retired from the largest engineering and construction company in Brazil, Camargo Correa, and lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Marcio can be reached at .

 

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Hiroshi Tanaka

Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka
Global Advisor

Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka has 40 years of experience in the global engineering and construction industry and is one of the foremost leaders in the world of professional project management. He is currently Deputy General Manager with JGC Corporation, one of Japan’s largest engineering and construction companies engaged in large off-shore international projects. He was General Manager of JGC’s Project Services Division and a board member of 800-employee JGC Project Services Company until 2002. He is now Deputy General Manager, Project Management Advocate, of JGC’s Strategic Planning and Government Relations Division. Hiro is also the National President of Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ), the Japanese national PM association – and the founder and former National President of Japan Project Management Forum, known as JPMF. Dr. Tanaka is also a Fellow and global project management delegate of the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA), the Japanese project industry initiative with 220 first-line Japanese corporations. Dr. Tanaka is widely considered the leading authority on project management in Japan. He has presented keynote, invited or proffered papers and speeches at more than 60 international PM conferences or seminars in 20 countries since 1982. He gained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1996, and received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 1998. Hiro was won awards from ENNA for Outstanding Engineering Contributions – Project Management in 1998 and 2002, the Global Fellow award from PMA (India) in 2000, and a PM GURU – Global Project Management Leadership Award presented by the State of India in November 2005. Dr. Tanaka is an author of two project management books and numerous papers and articles published in PM conference proceedings, journals and industrial reviews in four languages (Japanese, English, Chinese and Russian). A member of AIPM, IPMA, PMAJ, PMI and SOVNET (honorary lifetime membership), Hiro has been a frequent contributor to www.pmforum.org in recent years. Dr. Tanaka holds a Bachelor of Law in Political Science from Keio University, Tokyo (1967), and received a Ph.D. (Hon.) in Strategy, Programme and Project Management from ESC Lille - École Supérieure Management et Commerce Lille, France in August 2006. Hiro can be contacted at .

 

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Vladimir Voropajev

Professor Vladimir Voropajev, Ph.D.
Global Advisor

Professor Vladimir Voropajev, PhD. is is President and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Association of Project Management, SOVNET. Dr. Voropajev is professor of Project Management at the State University of Management, Moscow, Russia.  He is also Head of the Program and Project Management Faculty for the Russian State Academy’s Program for Professional Retraining and Professional Skill Development for Executives and Specialists in Investment Fields.  He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences on Information Science and Cybernetics, and of the International Academy of Investments and Economy in Construction. From 1991 to 2001, he was Vice-president and a member of the Executive Board of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the global federation of national PM associations based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the First Assessor for several IPMA certification bodies. In 2005 he was awarded IPMA Honorary Fellowship Award. He is also an honorary Fellow of the Indian Project Management Association and a past member of the Global Project Management Forum Steering Committee.  During his 40 years of engineering, scientific, teaching and consulting activities, he has published over 250 scientific research works including 7 monographs and 5 textbooks about the organization and planning of construction, information systems, and project management.  Vladimir serves on the editorial boards of several international project management journals, is a frequent participant in PM conferences worldwide, and provides ongoing counsel and support to PM professional leaders in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia and several other countries.  Professor Voropajev can be reached at

 

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Max Wideman

Max Wideman
Global Advisor

Mr. Max Wideman, FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, Fellow PMI, is a global PM advisor for PM World Today. A globally-recognized author, consultant and expert on the subject of project management (PM), Max is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on modern project and program management. The Wideman PM Glossary is one of the most widely-referenced lexicons of PM terms and terminology in the world today. Max Wideman has 40+ years of PM-related experience in a wide range of projects and industries. He is a registered professional engineer specializing in project management consulting. Max is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a long-time member of the Institute of Management (UK). Max served on the PMI Board of Directors as VP Member Services (1984), President (1987) and Chairman of the Board (1988). In the mid-1980's, he led a team of PMI volunteers to document the PM Body of Knowledge for the Institute, published by PMI in 1987. Max won PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award in 1985 and Person of the Year Award in 1986. Max Wideman is the author of A Framework for Project and Program Integration (PMI, 1991) and Project and Program Risk Management: A guide to Managing Project Risk and Opportunities (PMI, 1992). He contributed chapters to Project Management Handbook (PMI/Jossey-Bass, 1998); Field Guide to Project Management (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998, 2004) and Project Management for the Business Professional - A Comprehensive Guide (Wiley, 2001). His latest book is A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration. (Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2004). A resident of Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, Max Wideman’s personal website can be found at www.wideman.com. Max can be contacted at .

 

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Rebecca Winston

Rebecca Winston
Global Advisor

Ms. Rebecca Winston, Esq., JD, PMI Fellow, is a former Chair of the board of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). An experienced expert on the subject of project management (PM) in the fields of research & development (R&D), energy, environmental restoration and national security, she is well known throughout the United States and globally as a leader in the PM professional world.  Rebecca has over 25 years of experience in program and project management, primarily on programs funded by the US government.  She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska’s College of Law, Juris Doctorate (1980), in Lincoln, Nebraska and has a Bachelor’s of Science (BS) degree in Education from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master’s Degree in Biology from Iowa State University in the USA.  She is a licensed attorney in the states of Iowa and Nebraska, USA. Active in PMI since 1993, Rebecca Winston helped pioneer PMI's Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in the nineties, including the Project Earth and Government SIGs, and was a founder and first co-chair of the Women in Project Management SIG. She served two terms on the PMI board of directors as director at large, Secretary Treasurer, Vice Chair (for two years), and Chair (2002). She was elected a PMI Fellow in 2005.  She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of Female Executives in the United States. Ms. Winston currently serves as a consultant to organizations such as the National Nuclear Security Administration (USA), U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on topics ranging from Program and Project Management to project reviews, risk management and vulnerability assessments. She has extensive recent PM experience in the areas of national defense and security, and has worked closely with local, regional and national officials, including Congress and the Pentagon.  She lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA and can be contacted at .

 

 

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