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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Hiroshi Tanaka confirmed as PMF Global Advisor
Mr. Hiroshi Tanaka, Ph.D., is the National President of Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ), the Japanese national PM association – and the founder and former National President of Japan Project Management Forum, known as JPMF, which has been integrated into PMAJ. Dr. Tanaka is also a Fellow and global project management delegate of the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA), the Japanese project industry initiative with 220 first-line Japanese corporations; and Deputy General Manager with JGC Corporation, one of Japan’s largest engineering and construction companies engaged in large off-shore international projects.
Dr. Tanaka has 39 years of experience in the global engineering and construction industry. His primary areas of responsibility with his employer, JGC Corporation based in Yokohama, Japan, have been global proposal services, the administration of project operations as staff to senior management, project management technology, and management of division companies.
He was General Manager of JGC’s Project Services Division and a board member of 800-employee JGC Project Services Company until 2002 when he was retired from the company’s font-line operations; subsequently, he is Deputy General Manager, Project Management Advocate, of JGC’s Strategic Planning and Government Relations Division.
Dr. Tanaka is one of the leaders in the global project management community. He has been a member of and the ENAA representative to the Project Management Institute-PMI since 1984; one of the six founders of and was Chair of the Global Project Management Forum (GPMF), as well as the founder of the “JVQT” Alliance, a presidential alliance of project management associations in the four countries with growing project management interests, Japan, China, India and Russia. His other membership includes AIPM, Australia; IPMA (Global Fellow of PMA India, Lifetime Honorary Member of SOVNET, Russia); and SPM, Japan.
Known as “Guru Hiro”, his unique project management vision, advocating an optimum balance of industrial project management capability and project management professionalism, is well accepted by the global PM community; as such he has presented keynote, invited or proffered papers/speeches at more than 60 international project management conferences or seminars in 20 countries since 1982, viz. Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany (including former East Germany), Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uzbekistan and the USA.
He is the holder of the Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded in the USA by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1996, and is the recipient of the following professional contribution awards:
Dr. Tanaka is an author of two project management books, “Super Easy Project Management” (as lead author) published by Nikkan-Kogyo Press in 2004, and “Global Project Management Handbook, Second Edition” (as chapter contributor) published by MacGraw-Hill in 2006. He is writing another chapter for a McGraw Hill project management book. He has written numerous papers and articles for publications in project management conference proceedings, association journals and industrial reviews in four languages (Japanese, English, Chinese and Russian).
Dr. Tanaka holds a Bachelor of Law in Political Science from Keio University, Tokyo in which he was graduated in 1967, and Ph.D. (Hon.) in Strategy, Programme and Project Management from ESC Lille - École Supérieure Management et Commerce Lille (Lille Graduate School of Management) awarded in August 2006.
The pmforum.org team extends a warm welcome to Hiroshi Tanaka as Global Advisor in support of pmforum.org, PM World Today and the world of project management. Hiroshi Tanaka can be contacted at hirojpmf@wta.att.ne.jp.
On September 5, 2006, Pmforum.org announced the formation of a Global Advisory Panel to provide advice and feedback to the editorial team at www.pmforum.org and PM World Today. The PMF Global Advisory Panel consists of current and former leaders of project management professional societies and organizations around the world. Their experience and insight will help guide Pmforum.org in matters associated with the world of professional project management. In particular, the group advises the managing editor on ways to serve the international PM community. More information about the Global Advisory Panel can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. Pmforum.org is one of the world’s leading sources of project management news and information and the home of the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where viewpoints, articles, case studies and papers by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmforum.org/subscribe.
He was General Manager of JGC’s Project Services Division and a board member of 800-employee JGC Project Services Company until 2002 when he was retired from the company’s font-line operations; subsequently, he is Deputy General Manager, Project Management Advocate, of JGC’s Strategic Planning and Government Relations Division.
Dr. Tanaka is one of the leaders in the global project management community. He has been a member of and the ENAA representative to the Project Management Institute-PMI since 1984; one of the six founders of and was Chair of the Global Project Management Forum (GPMF), as well as the founder of the “JVQT” Alliance, a presidential alliance of project management associations in the four countries with growing project management interests, Japan, China, India and Russia. His other membership includes AIPM, Australia; IPMA (Global Fellow of PMA India, Lifetime Honorary Member of SOVNET, Russia); and SPM, Japan.
Known as “Guru Hiro”, his unique project management vision, advocating an optimum balance of industrial project management capability and project management professionalism, is well accepted by the global PM community; as such he has presented keynote, invited or proffered papers/speeches at more than 60 international project management conferences or seminars in 20 countries since 1982, viz. Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany (including former East Germany), Hungary, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uzbekistan and the USA.
He is the holder of the Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded in the USA by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1996, and is the recipient of the following professional contribution awards:
- Exxon Project Management Contribution Award – conferred by Exxon Research and Engineering Company in October 1996
- PMI Distinguished Contribution Award presented by Project Management Institute (PMI), USA in October 1998 (62nd out of 220,000 PMI members).
- Outstanding Engineering Contribution Award – Project Management awarded by the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA) in November 1998.
- Global Fellowship awarded by Project Management Associates, India in December 2000.
- Outstanding Engineering Contribution Award – Project Management and International Relations Promotion conferred on by the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA) in June 2002.
- PM GURU – Global Project Management Leadership Award presented by the State of India in November 2005.
Dr. Tanaka is an author of two project management books, “Super Easy Project Management” (as lead author) published by Nikkan-Kogyo Press in 2004, and “Global Project Management Handbook, Second Edition” (as chapter contributor) published by MacGraw-Hill in 2006. He is writing another chapter for a McGraw Hill project management book. He has written numerous papers and articles for publications in project management conference proceedings, association journals and industrial reviews in four languages (Japanese, English, Chinese and Russian).
Dr. Tanaka holds a Bachelor of Law in Political Science from Keio University, Tokyo in which he was graduated in 1967, and Ph.D. (Hon.) in Strategy, Programme and Project Management from ESC Lille - École Supérieure Management et Commerce Lille (Lille Graduate School of Management) awarded in August 2006.
The pmforum.org team extends a warm welcome to Hiroshi Tanaka as Global Advisor in support of pmforum.org, PM World Today and the world of project management. Hiroshi Tanaka can be contacted at hirojpmf@wta.att.ne.jp.
On September 5, 2006, Pmforum.org announced the formation of a Global Advisory Panel to provide advice and feedback to the editorial team at www.pmforum.org and PM World Today. The PMF Global Advisory Panel consists of current and former leaders of project management professional societies and organizations around the world. Their experience and insight will help guide Pmforum.org in matters associated with the world of professional project management. In particular, the group advises the managing editor on ways to serve the international PM community. More information about the Global Advisory Panel can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. Pmforum.org is one of the world’s leading sources of project management news and information and the home of the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where viewpoints, articles, case studies and papers by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmforum.org/subscribe.
