Shankar Sankaran, PhD
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Shankar Sankaran, PhD, PMP, CPEng is Professor of Organisational Project Management at the School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney and an Associate Member of the UTS Robotics Institute located at the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia. He is an Associate Editor of Project Management Journal and has guest edited special issues for that journal.
He is a Chief Investigator of an Australian Research Council Industry Transformation Research Hub for Human Robot-Team for Sustainable Resilient Construction being set up at UTS.
Shankar was Chair of the Global Accreditation Centre board for the Project Management Institute (2021-2022), a Member of the College of Leadership and Management at Engineers Australia - Sydney Division since 2021, and the Past President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2019-2020). He is one of the members of a team of project management professionals working on Engineers Australia's initiative on Project Governance by Engineers that started in 2022.
He has published papers in The International Journal of Project Management and The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business and guest edited a special issue on megaprojects for the Project Management Journal. He is one of the editors of the book titled Megaproject Leaders- Reflections on Personal Life Stories and author of a book titled Balanced Leadership: Making the Best of Personal and Team Leadership in Projects along with Professors Ralf Müller from Norway and Nathalie Drouin from Canada.
Shankar holds a PhD, Business and Management, from the University of South Australia; Master of Engineering, Systems Engineering, from RMIT, Australia; Bachelor of Science (Hon), Instrument Technology, from Madras University, India. He is PMP certified by PMI and a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia.
More at https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Shankar.Sankaran and https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankar-sankaran-260320a/?originalSubdomain=au. He can be contacted at shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au
Learn more about Prof. Sankaran at https://pmworldlibrary.net/shankar-sankaran-phd/
Profile created 7 April 2022