Professor Roland Gareis in Vienna named International Editorial Advisor for Project Management eJournal PM World Today

Dallas, Texas – June 8, 2007 — PMForum, Inc. announced today that Professor Roland Gareis, PhD, Professor of the project management department at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria, has been named an international editorial advisor for the online eJournal PM World Today. In January 2007 the company announced the formation of an International Editorial Advisory Council for PM World Today, to include representatives from some of the world’s leading universities with graduate programs in project management.

According to managing editor David L. Pells, “Roland Gareis is one of the best known project management researchers and academic leaders in the world. He has been active in both IPMA and PMI for many years, and is currently leading some very interesting research into the project orientation of nations and society. I have known him since 1990; it is an honor and a privilege to have him join our team as an editorial advisor.”

Prof. Dkfm. Roland Gareis is professor and head of the project management department, PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP, at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. He is also director of the Professional MBA Program “Project & Process Management” at the university and manager of the research program: Project orientation (international). He was formerly a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Statue University in Atlanta, USA; at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland; and at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. He studied at Vienna Technical University and the University of Economics and Business Administration, receiving his doctorate in 1972. He was a post-doctoral visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, USA, in 1976.

A long time member of both Projekt Management Austria (PMA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Roland was president and chairman of the board of PMA, the Austrian professional project management association, during 1986-2002. In 1990, he organized the IPMA World Congress in Vienna on the topic of “Management by Projects”. He is the former research director for the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and has been involved in various project management research and teaching projects for over 20 years. His primary research activities have been “Management by Projects” (1988-91), “Crisis Management” (1992-1993), “Project Management – A Business Process of the Project-oriented Company” (1995-1998), “Project-oriented Society” and “Programme Austria” (1999-2002), and “Project orientation – international” (2005-2007). He was chair or speaker at IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, Copenhagen, Moscow, New Delhi, Oslo and Paris, and has participated in a number of PMI congresses in the United States.

Roland Gareis was co-author, with Professor David Cleland, of the textbook, Global Project Management Handbook (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006), and with M. Stummer of the textbook, Prozesse & Projekte (Manz Verlag, Wien, 2006). He is the author of the book Happy Projects in English (Manz Publishing, Vienna, 2005) and in German (Manz Verlag, Wien, 2004). His chapter contributions to other project management textbooks include: “Managing by Projects” in The Handbook of Managing Projects, Peter Morris & Jeffrey Pinto editors (Wiley & Sons, 2004); “Project management competencies in the project-oriented company”, in People in Project Management, J. Rodney Turner editor (Gower Aldershot, 2003); “Maturity of Project-oriented Organizations”, in The Frontiers of Project Management, Cleland, Pinto & Slevin editors, (PMI, 2002); “Projekte zum Management einer Unternehmensdiskontinuitat”, in Handbuck Krisenmanagement, Schlager/Feldbauer, Hrsg. (Sanierung, Linde Verlag, 2002); “Project Management Compentence in the Project-oriented Organization”, in People in Projects, J. Rodney Turner editor (Gower, Aldershot, 2002); and “Competencies in the Project-oriented Organization”, in PM Research at the turn of the Millenium (PMI, 2001). Professor Gareis has also made other significant contributions to project management conferences, journals and publications over the last two decades.

Established in 1898, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wu Wien) became a public World Trade University (Hochschule für Welthandel) immediately after World War II. The University was renamed again in 1975 to Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration). WU Wien has now grown to 20,000 students and more than 1,000 full-time and adjunct faculty and staff members. The University’s close cooperation with industry affords it an especially practical relevance, which is one of the reasons The Financial Times ranked the university among Europe's Top 50 Business Schools. Over 180 partner universities throughout the world and acknowledged expertise in a number of fields, including that of East-West business, have made the university a renowned center of knowledge in many key fields of business and economics.

PMForum, Inc. administers and operates http://www.pmforum.org, the world’s first project management website and one of the world’s best known and leading sources of project management news and information. PMForum also publishes the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading project management authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at http://www.pmworldtoday.net .

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