Shankar Sankaran is Professor of Organisational Project Management at the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, and Core Member of the Built Environment Informatics and Innovation Research Centre and a Chief Investigator of the UTS Centre for Research on Megaprojects. He is an investigator in a PMI Sponsored Research Grant on project leadership led by Ralf Müller and a principal investigator in the PMI Sponsored Research Grant on Governance of Innovation in Portfolios, Programs and Projects (3P). Shankar teaches Organizational Project Management in the Master of Project Management Program at UTS. He has supervised over thirty doctoral students, worked as a chief investigator in two Australian Research Council funded research grants, published/presented over one hundred research papers, served as special issues editor in leading project management journals, edited three books, and contributed over fifteen book chapters. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Project Management. Shankar joined academia after several years of experience as a major project manager and senior operations manager in Yokogawa Electric Asia, Singapore. Shankar is the secretary of and a subject matter expert in Work Group 8 of the ISO TC 258 developing standards in the field of project, program, and portfolio management.

Ralf Müller is Professor of Project Management and former Associate Dean at BI Norwegian Business School as well as adjunct and visiting professor at many other institutions worldwide. He lectures and researches in leadership, governance, organizational project management, and research methods, which is the subject of his more than 200 academic publications. Among the awards he received are the 2016 PMI Fellow of the Institute Award, the 2015 PMI Research Achievement Award (a lifetime achievement award), the 2012 IPMA Research Award, and the 2009 Project Management Journal Best Paper of the Year Award. He is Senior Editor of the Project Management Journal and founder of the first PMI Chapter in Europe. Before joining academia, he spent thirty years in the industry consulting with large enterprises and governments in more than fifty different countries for their project management and governance. He also held related line management positions, such as the Worldwide Director of Project Management at NCR Corporation.

Nathalie Drouin is Executive Director of KHEOPS, an International Research Consortium on the Governance of Large Infrastructure Projects, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Full Professor, Department of Management and Technology, School of Management at Université du Québec at Montreal (ESG UQAM) and Adjunct Professor of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She was formerly an Associate Dean, Research at ESG UQAM, and Director of the Graduate Project Management Programs, ESG UQAM. She teaches initiation and strategic management of projects in the Graduate Project Management Programs. Her research has been funded by various research councils. The result of her work has been published in major academic journals and presented at several international conferences. Her work on virtual project teams’ success and organizational capabilities within project context and project management research methods led to the publication of the first book on methods for project management research, Novel Approaches to Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational, coedited with Ralf Müller and Shankar Sankaran. She is a member of the PMI Academic Member Advisory Group, the Board of Directors of the Logistics and Transportation Metropolitan Cluster of Montreal (CARGO M), and the Board of Directors of KHEOPS, an International Research Consortium on the Governance of Large Infrastructure Projects.

Chivonne Algeo is Associate Professor of Project Management at Monash University and researches on knowledge exchange in projects. She has won international awards for her research, and has twenty years of experience delivering international projects. Chivonne is the chair of the ANZAM Project Organising SIG; a member of PMI; and a Life Fellow of the AIPM.

Karyne Ang is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Her research into multiple stakeholder perspectives of value in project portfolios could contribute to opportunities for optimizing relevant value constructs for decision-making that are aligned with the organization’s and stakeholders’ strategic intents.

Monique Aubry is a professor at the School of Management, UQAM. Her main research interest concerns organizing for projects and organizational design. She is a member of the Project Management Research Chair (www.pmchair.uqam.ca) and the UQAM’s Health and Society Institute. She is Senior Editor at the Project Management Journal.

Christopher Biesenthal is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. His main research area is project governance. Project governance is primarily concerned with the alignment of different organizational directions. This fuzzy intersection where strategy and project management meet provides grounds to investigate the nature of organizational practices.

Jon Boyle is NASA Agency Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer, where he contributes to the development of the overall NASA Technical Workforce. He possesses expertise in Cognitive Neurosciences, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Knowledge Management, Group Processes, Human Resources and Workforce Development, Business Strategy, Technology-Enabled Learning, Research and Development, and Process Improvement.

Timo Braun is Junior Professor for Project Management at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. He has published on cooperative human behavior in projects and interorganizational networks as well as on cross-organizational perspectives on entrepreneurial processes. His PhD project was honored by the IPMA Germany award for the best doctoral thesis in 2013.

Christophe Bredillet is Professor of Organizational Project Management at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He is director of the Doctoral program in business administration. His main interests are in Philosophy of Science and Practice and complex/organizational project management. He received the IPMA Research Achievement Award 2016.

Julia Connell is an Adjunct Professor of Management, Curtin University and an honorary fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She has published widely on topics related to employment, change and organizational effectiveness as well as consulting to a number of public and private sector organizations on related topics.

Tom Cronje has an academic career that consists of lecturing and research in different business management areas, which include collaborative research on social media. He also has industry experience in manufacturing and retail business management, including the development and launching of new products.

Hélène Delerue is Project Management Research Chair (www.pmchair.uqam.ca) at UQAM, and holds a PhD in Management (Paris-Dauphine). She is a Full Professor at the Management and Technology Department at Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM). Her current work focuses on relational risk management in alliance relationships, R&D processes, and R&D project portfolio management.

Pernille Eskerod is Full Professor at the Department of Business and Management, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria. She conducts research within change management and project management. She has authored more than one hundred publications, including the book RETHINK! Project Stakeholder Management (2016, with Martina Huemann & Claudia Ringhofer), based on a competitive PMI research grant.

Ed Hoffman was the first NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) in 2011. He focuses on the policies, strategies, processes, and practices for promoting a successful knowledge creation, retention, and sharing culture in support of mission success. He also works with industry, academia, professional associations, and government agencies to develop the agency’s capabilities in program and project management.

Vered Holzmann is a lecturer in the Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, and researches the topics of innovation and entrepreneurship, project management and strategy. She manages international projects in the fields of higher education, information systems and software development and served as VP for research and academic affairs in PMI Israel Chapter.

Martina Huemann is a professor at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she heads the Project Management Group in the Department Strategy & Innovation and is the Academic Director of the Professional MBA Program: Project Management. She is cofounder and manager of enable2change, a network of independent experts who translate strategy into action.

Kam Jugdev is a Professor of Project Management and Strategy in the Faculty of Business at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. Kam enjoys teaching students in project management and strategy. Her research spans competitive advantage, lessons learned, burnout, the free rider phenomenon, and project success/failure.

Anne Keegan is Professor of Human Resource Management at UCD School of Business, Ireland. She carries out research on HRM and leadership in a project-based organizational context and has published in leading HRM, general management, and project management journals.

Lynn Keeys is a visiting research fellow at the Project Management Group, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and part-time faculty, Boston University Metropolitan College Master’s program in project management. Her interests include the link between organization, program and project strategy, benefits cocreation, and sustainable development as holistic management.

Catherine P. Killen is an Associate Professor and the director of the postgraduate project management program in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney. Catherine’s research focuses on project portfolio management, primarily from a practice-based perspective. She has more than sixty refereed publications in this area.

Alexander Kock is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests cover project portfolio management, highly innovative projects, the early phases of the innovation process, and university-industry collaboration. He has published over twenty-five journal articles and a widely used textbook on innovation management.

Julian Kopmann (PMP) is an expert in project and project portfolio management solutions at Bombardier Transportation. During his PhD studies on value realization through project portfolio management he was in charge of the 6th Multiproject Management Benchmarking Study of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Øyvind Kvalnes is a philosopher with a PhD in Ethics from the University of Oslo. He is an associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour.

Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay is an associate professor at the Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University. She is conducting research to improve organization of care and work for personnel, patients, and the organization. She is a researcher at the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal.

Laurence Lecoeuvre is Professor and Deputy Director of Masters in Management Program at Université Côte d’Azur, SKEMA, France. Until 2015 she was an Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs and Head of the Department of Management of Projects at SKEMA’s Lille campus. She has twenty years of industry experience as an International Marketing Director.

Miia Martinsuo is Professor of Industrial Management at the Laboratory of Industrial and Information Management, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Her field of research and teaching is industrial operations, particularly in project and service business. Her research interests include: project organizing and lifecycle management; managing project portfolios; the autonomy of development projects; and transformation toward service business.

Johann Packendorff is Professor of Industrial Economics and Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His research explores issues related to project organization and leadership, project-based work, and projectification of organizations and society. He is a co-organizer of the international “Making Projects Critical” workshop series, and an elected member of the Swedish Project Academy.

Peerasit Patanakul is Associate Professor of Management at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie. His research interests include project portfolio management, multiple project management, project strategy, and managing government projects. His works have been published in highly regarded project management journals. He is a coauthor of Case Studies in Project, Program, and Organizational Project Management.

Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State University. He is the lead faculty member for Penn State’s Master of Project Management program. He is the author or editor of twenty-four books and over 140 scientific papers.

Julien Pollack has managed projects in organizational change, telecommunications, and heavy engineering. He now works at the University of Sydney teaching project management. His research focuses on trends in project management research, and developing project management to meet the needs of ambiguous and contested projects.

Kaye Remington teaches postgraduate students at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests focus on furthering understanding of projects and programs in dynamic stakeholder environments, with a particular interest in large-scale public sector projects and programs, through the application of complexity theory, psychology, and design thinking.

Claudia Ringhofer is a researcher and lecturer at Project Management Group, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, lecturer at the Danube University Krems and the University of Applied Sciences Steyr (all in Austria). She is a junior expert of the consulting network, enable2change.

Rami Sariola is a doctoral student at the Laboratory of Industrial and Information Management, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His publications appear in International Journal of Project Management and International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. His dissertation deals with suppliers’ role in construction project networks.

Aaron Shenhar is Professor of Project Management and Leadership. After his aerospace career, he served at Univ. of Minnesota, Rutgers, Stevens, and Tel-Aviv University. He is founder and CEO of the Diamond Leadership Institute a knowledge-based company, focusing on training and consulting in project management, leadership, and strategy.

Joca Stefanovic has a doctorate in technology management from Stevens. After a career in engineering, development, and management positions, he gained extensive experience in areas of computer business: development, marketing/sales, and support. He founded and grew a company dealing in computer and other high-tech equipment from start-up to a multimillion dollar level.

Rodney Turner is Professor of Project Management at SKEMA Business School, Lille France, SAIPEM Professor of Project Management at the Politecnico di Milano and Professor and High End Foreign Expert at Shanghai University. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, and editor of The International Journal of Project Management. His research areas cover project management in small- to medium-enterprises, the management of complex projects, governance of project management, including ethics and trust, and project marketing.

Stephane Tywoniak is Professor of Complex Project Management at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa (Canada), and Academic Lead of the Master of Business Complex Project Management. His main research interest is about how complexity plays out in projects, and how management practices get institutionalized in project-based organizations.

Kim van Oorschot is Professor of Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School. Her research focuses on decision making and trade-offs in dynamically complex settings, like new product development (NPD) projects. Her research projects are aimed at discovering so-called “decision traps”: decisions that seem to be good on the short term, but have counterproductive effects on the long term.

Lauri Vuorinen is a doctoral student at the Laboratory of Industrial and Information Management, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the practice of project control in different project environments. His current research interests deal with project control, project lifecycle value, and multi-project management.