Morten Fangel named Global Advisor by Project Management media entity PMForum

Dallas, Texas, USA—August 24, 2007 — PMForum, Inc. announced today that Morten Fangel, former Chair and honorary Fellow of IPMA, has been named a global advisor to the company. Global advisors provide advice and guidance to the company’s editorial team on ways to better serve the world of professional project management. PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, one of the world’s most popular project management websites, and produces the popular monthly PM World Today eJournal.

According to PMForum Managing Editor David Pells, “Morten Fangel is one of the most widely known project management experts in Scandinavia and throughout Europe. As former IPMA president and chair, he is recognized worldwide as a leader in the project management profession. We are honored by his participation on our advisory team.”

Morten Fangel is Managing Director and Chief Consultant of Fangel Consultants Ltd., a project management consultancy based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is one of the founders of the Danish Project Management Association, of which he is currently the Executive Director. Morten is a member of the Danish Project Management Association and four other Nordic Associations, the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the Project Management Institute (PMI ®) and the Association of Certified Management Consultants (CMC). He is former president, past Chair and an Honorary Fellow of IPMA, and an honorary member of the Icelandic Project Management Association.

Morten Fangel holds a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and Ph.D. in industrial research from the Technical University of Denmark and a Diploma in Economics degree from the Copenhagen Business School. After years in consulting Engineering companies, he founded Fangel Consultants Ltd., from where he has more than three decades of experience in management consulting. Morten Fangel has introduced and is a specialist in methodologies for project preparation and start-up, and for planning and evaluation of project management. He also organises and teaches the annual IPMA Advanced Courses.

Other well known professional leaders who have recently become global advisors for PMForum include Russ Archibald in Mexico (PMI Fellow; PMI member #6); Martin Barnes, PhD, in the UK (APM Fellow, former chair of APM and IPMA, current President of APM); Gilles Caupin in France (IPMA Fellow, former Chair of IPMA & the French PM Association AFITEP); Paul Dinsmore in Brazil (PMI Fellow, author, consultant); Adesh Jain in India (current Chair & Fellow of IPMA, President of PMA in New Delhi); Eric Jenett in the USA (Founder, Fellow & former Chair of PMI); Brian Kooyman in Australia (Fellow & Past President of AIPM); Harvey Levine in the USA (Fellow & Past Chair of PMI); Louis Mercken in Belgium (former Chair of PMI); Peter Morris, PhD, in the UK (APM Fellow, former Chair of APM and IPMA);Marcio Prieto in Brazil (Founder of PMI Brazil & PMI Sao Paulo); Hiroshi Tanaka in Japan (Former chair of JPMF, Founder & President of PMAJ); Professor Vladimir Voropajev in Russia (Founder & Fellow, Russian Project Management Association SOVNET); Max Wideman in Canada (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair); and Rebecca Winston in the USA (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair). Additional information about PMForum’s Global Advisors can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.

SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.

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PMForum, Inc. administers and operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first project management website and one of the world’s 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 www.pmworldtoday.net.

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