Contributors

Loredana Abramo is a global citizen, who has lived and worked in several locations, across four continents. After receiving her doctorate in electrical engineering, she started her career developing and delivering large national telecommunications networks in Europe, Asia, and Australia, alternating customer delivery leadership roles, business development, service readiness, and program management in the corporate program office with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia. Loredana is an adjunct professor at Boston University Metropolitan College, where she focuses on project, program, and portfolio management courses and maintains multiple memberships in professional societies.

Ghasan Hamed Almaamari has a PhD in project management from Bournemouth University. Ghasan is the founder of Zawad Development and Consultancy and specializes in PM and tourism development in Oman. His research interests are in project management, sustainable tourism, and tourism’s impact on culture.

Darren Dalcher is a professor in strategic project management at Lancaster University Management School, and Visiting International Scholar at InnoLab, University of Vaasa. He is the founder and director of the National Centre for Project Management, an interdisciplinary center of excellence operating in collaboration with industry, government, academia, third-sector organizations, and the learned societies. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, published by Wiley and editor of the Routledge Frontiers in Project Management series of research books. His research focuses on rethinking project success and repositioning the concept of agility, especially in the context of strategy, sustainability, and innovation, as well as engaging with the impact of morality, complexity, and reflective practice.

Herbert Daly is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wolverhampton. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science, a Master of Science in software engineering, and is a Doctor of Philosophy in multi-method modeling. His research interests include enterprise systems, digital transformation, and project management for emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing.

Ganesh Devkar is an associate professor at the CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. He holds a doctorate in construction management from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). His doctoral work focuses on competencies in urban local bodies for implementing water, sanitation, and solid waste management public private partnership (PPP) projects in India. Ganesh teaches construction quality and safety management, project appraisal, lean construction, and public private partnerships. He has been researching in the areas of public private partnerships, lean construction, and megaprojects. He has participated in four systematic reviews focusing on delivery of infrastructure like water supply, sanitation, hygiene, telecom, electricity, and transport. He received the “Young Research Scholar Award” from Project Management Institute, India.

Nicole Ferdinand is program lead, post-graduate programs at the Oxford School of Hospitality Management, Oxford Brookes University. She regularly publishes in the areas of tourism, culture, events, and project management. She holds a PhD in culture, media, and creative industries from King’s College, London, as well as an MSc in marketing and BA in English from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Leticia Fuentes-Ardeo is a telecommunication engineer (2006) from the University of Deusto (UD); she has complementary formation as project management master, innovation and knowledge management master, and information technology master, and is a PhD student at the University of the Basque Country. She is a project manager with more than 15 years of experience coordinating innovative and multimedia projects and she has worked on European projects leading different work packages. Leticia is developing her PhD student career focused on the integration of sustainability in project management.

Bandara Gamlath is a senior lecturer in the Department of Finance and Accountancy, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. He received his MPhil degree in management (finance) from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, a postgraduate diploma in industrial and business management from the University of Kelaniya and his BSc special degree in financial management from the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. His research includes capital market development, capital structure, development finance, entrepreneurship, financial management, human resource management, project governance, and tourism management. He has published research papers in ACADEMICIA – the International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, Journal of Business Studies, Journal of Management Matters, Journal of Management and Tourism Research, Sabaragamuwa University Journal, Sri Lankan Journal of Banking and Finance, and SJCC Management Review. He is a fellow member of the Association of Public Finance Accountants of Sri Lanka (APFASL), the public sector wing of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, and an academic member of the Sri Lanka Finance Association.

John Lannon has been a consultant and researcher with a range of international development and human rights organizations, primarily in the area of information management and technology use. Prior to becoming Doras CEO, he worked at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, where his primary areas of interest were project and program management, organized responses to social inequality, and using social media to achieve social good. He has been a human rights activist and campaigner for over 20 years, and has been involved in a range of social justice campaigns during that time. He has also previously served as chairperson of the Board of Doras. John holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering, an MA in peace and development studies, and a PhD in the area of human rights information management.

José Ricardo López-Robles received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Mexico, 2007), master’s degree in project management from the University of the Basque Country (Spain, 2010), master’s degree in business administration from the ENEB Business School (Spain, 2017) and PhD in engineering from the University of the Basque Country. He is the recipient of the Ibero-American Award “Veta de Plata 2016” in the category “Science and Technology” and he has published over 15 scientific articles in journals and books. Finally, he is collaborating professor of the unit accounting and management at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico).

Rich Maltzman, PMP, is master lecturer at Boston University. He is an author, consultant, and speaker, focused on a suite of courses, laboratories, and workshops on project leadership. Rich has four decades of experience in technical project management. He has been a researcher and international speaker on the intersection of project management and sustainability, coauthoring several books (including Green Project Management, a PMI Cleland Award-winner) with an objective to integrate long-term thinking into the mindset of project leaders. As a member of the editorial board for the new PMBOK® Guide, seventh edition and Standard for Project Management, Rich and others have successfully built these principles into project management standards and practices, although there is much more to be done.

Luigi Morsa has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and is a project manager working for the consultant company SII Germany Engineering and IT. Luigi’s passion for project management has led to several publications including three books by Dr. Harold Kerzner, the pioneer and globally recognized expert in project management. Luigi wrote three case studies about the aircraft industry for Project Management Case Studies, fifth and sixth editions (Wiley, 2017, 2022), and two sections and the chapter “Innovation Management Software” for Innovation Project Management (Wiley, 2019). As a frequent international speaker, his focus is on the complexity of the aircraft industry market, with particular emphasis on the relationship between product and customer needs. He is also contributor for the blog of the International Institute of Learning based in NY.

Alexia Nalewaik has over 30 years of...