ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Peter Morris is Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL), Visiting Professor of Engineering Project Management at UMIST, and Director of the UCL/UMIST-based Centre for Research in the Management of Projects. He is also Executive Director of INDECO Limited, an international projects-based management consultancy. He is a past Chairman and Vice President of the Association for Project Management and past Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association. He is a member of the Project Management Institute, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, a Fellow of the Association for Project Management, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He was previously a Main Board Director of Bovis Limited, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and the Executive Director of the Major Projects Association. Prior to his work at Oxford, he was a senior consultant with Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts and with Booz, Allen & Hamilton in New York, and an engineer with Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons in London.

He has written over 100 papers on project management as well as the books The Anatomy of Major Projects (Wiley 1988) and The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford 1997). He is the editor, with Jeffrey Pinto, of Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley 2004).

Ashley Jamieson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Construction and Project Management at University College London. He previously worked as a business manager, senior program manager, and project manager with global aerospace and defense companies on British, European, North American, Middle East, Asian, and Australasian aircraft programs and projects. He then took up a career in research and worked at the Centre for Research in the Management of Projects at UMIST, where he carried out research and consultancy into design management in major construction projects. He was a Visiting Lecturer in Project Management at UMIST and the University of Manchester and a co-contributor with Peter Morris to the Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley 2004). He holds an MSc in Engineering Business Management.