Danilo Arba
Milan, Italy / Lima, Peru
Danilo Arba is a global programme executive, author and strategic advisor who helps organisations strengthen governance, accelerate transformation and make better decisions in an AI-enabled world. Over a career spanning more than 25 years and five continents, he has led PMOs, transformation offices and project controls functions on major capital programmes, including giga-scale developments in Saudi Arabia.
He is the author of the best-selling book Thinking with Machines: Building AI-Enabled PMOs for the Age of Intelligent Project Leadership (DIEFFE Publishing, 2026). Danilo is a DBA candidate at Politecnico di Milano, where his research examines how decision rights should be allocated between people and machines. He also served as AACE International Region 9 Director and is currently a Global PMO Ambassador for AIPMO.
His work brings together executive leadership, decision intelligence and disciplined delivery, connecting strategy, governance and execution in complex organisations. He can be contacted through daniloarba.com.
Profile updated September 2026
Articles and Papers
- Future Directions of Cost and Productivity Estimating using Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Featured Paper - Arba - August 2021
- Best Tested and Proven Practices for Hospital Construction: Standardized Multidimensional WBS/CBS Coding Structures - Featured Paper - Arba - February 2021
- Modular Construction vs Traditional Construction, a Total Cost of Ownership Comparison of Data Centre Construction - Featured Paper - Arba - January 2021
- Multi-dimensional Project Breakdown Structures to Ensure Efficient Delivery of Hospital Construction - Featured Paper - Arba - November 2020
- Data Mining tools and techniques in construction by Knowledge Areas: State of the Art situation - Featured Paper - Arba - October 2020
- Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Automated BIM-based Construction Progress & Reporting - Featured Paper - Arba - August 2020
