October 2021 |Climate Change and the Evolution of the Project Management Profession with Vedran Zerjav and Efrosyni Konstantinou

The session will discuss the key findings of PMI funded research to address the question of how project, program, and portfolio management (P3M) can be utilized and extended to deal with the climate crisis. The starting point for the research is that projects are at the heart of dealing with the climate crisis but that there isn’t a clarity on what are the implications for the project profession.

Vedran is Associate Professor of Infrastructure Project Management in the Bartlett, UCL. His is a scholar of projects with an interest in a range of organisational issues in project-based organisational forms. His main areas of interest include strategic, operational and value considerations in projects and his empirical focus is on urban infrastructure and its delivery. He is a qualitative researcher with an interest in hybrid and novel methodologies for project studies. 

Efrosyni is Associate Professor in Strategic Management of Project at University College London, UK. She leads an interdisciplinary programme of independent research focused on the politics of identity and knowledge in organizations, in connection with professionalism and ethics. Her research studies the individual as an agent (sociological perspective), a human (philosophical perspective) and an employee (organization studies perspective) and brings to light the multidirectional and multidimensional nature of human existence. She is also Chair of the Knowledge and Learning Special Interest Group in the British Academy of Management.