2009

IPMA Life Achievement Award 2009
Professor Peter W.G. Morris

Peter Morris is Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL).  He is also Executive Director of INDECO, a consultancy in the management of projects.

His research has largely been on the competencies required to develop and deliver projects and programs successfully. His research underpins the structure of the APM Body of Knowledge and he was a principal author of the 1st and 4th editions. He was also a co-author of the original IPMA International Competency Baseline document. He is the leading proponent of ‘the management of projects’ perspective – see The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley, 2005); The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994) and The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987). He also works on the linkage between corporate and project strategy (Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy (PMI, 2004) and on project-based learning. He is currently researching how longer term conditions in the built environment are requiring changed management approaches. He has a special interest in the history of project management. In addition to his five books, he is the author of over 110 papers. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Project Management (OUP, 2010).

At UCL he heads a Department of 20 faculty and 220 students. In the recent (2008) UK Government Research Assessment Exercise it was ranked best of all construction management departments for the quality of its research.

Dr. Morris has consulted widely. Clients include AstraZeneca, BA, BG, BP, BNFL, Camelot, Ericsson, FKI, Fujitsu, GSK, Hamworthy, Land Securities, Lloyds TSB, Magnox, National Australia Bank, Pfizer, PowerGen, Premier Oil, Procter & Gamble, Shell, Skanska, Spirent and Unilever among others.

He is currently a Vice President and was previously Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM). He was also Deputy Chairman of International Project Management Association (IPMA).  He is an (Honorary) Fellow of the Association for Project Management, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was the recipient of the Project Management Institute’s 2005 Research Achievement Award, IPMA’s 2009 Research Award, and APM’s 2008 Sir Monty Finniston Life Time Achievement Award.