Rebecca (Becky) Winston
Idaho Falls, USA
Rebecca (Becky) Winston, Esq., JD, PMI Fellow, is a former Chair of the board of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Becky has over 30 years of experience in program and project management, primarily on programs funded by the US government or their contractors.
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. She currently is the Executive Vice President of the College of Performance Management and the lead for their ISO standards committee given her 25 plus years of ISO experience.
She has served as an advisor to organizations such as the National Nuclear Security Administration (USA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on topics ranging from Program and Project Management to project reviews, risk management, vulnerability assessments, software development and artificial intelligence. She served on the Air Force Studies Board for six years and serves the Intelligence Science Technology Engineering Group for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as actively serving on many studies for the National Research Council. She can be contacted at rebeccawinston@yahoo.com
Updated 7 February 2017