PMFORUM Breaking News

Project Management Associates (PMA), the Indian national project management association, has announced an impressive list of members of its International Advisory Committee for their 17^th Global Symposium 2009 - Managing Projects, Programs & Portfolios - to be held during 14-16 December 2009. The Symposium will be held at the Hotel Hyatt Regency in New Delhi, India.

The 17^th Global Symposium 2009 is organized under the overall Chair of Mr. B K Chaturvedi (pictured at right), Member, Planning Commission, Government of India, who is also the Chair of the 2009 International Advisory Committee (IAC). Other members include:

Indian National Members of IAC

• Arun Balakrishnan, CMD, HPCL
• R Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
• Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII
• S Behuria, Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation
• P S Bhattacharyya, CMD, Coal India
• H S Brahma, Secretary, Ministry of Power
• Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman, SCOPE
• Dr. S N Dash, Secretary, Dept of Heavy Industries
• Naresh Dayal, Former Secretary, Ministry of Health & FW
• Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI
• B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel
• Rakesh Nath, Chairman, CEA
• R S Pande, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
• D S Rawat, Secretary General, ASSOCHAM
• S K Roongta, Chairman, SAIL
• Dr. Pronab Sen, Secretary, MOSPI
• R S Sharma, CMD, NTPC
• R S Sharma, CMD' ONGC
• Dr. Rita Sharma, Secretary, Dept of Rural Development
• Ashok Sinha, CMD, BPCL
• Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat, Chairman, University Grants Commission
• K Venkataramanan, Member of the Board &, President (O), L&T
  

IAC Members from Around the World

• Wayne Abba, President of Abba Associates, EVMS Guru, USA 
• Dr. Martin Barnes, President and Honorary Fellow of APM, Legendary PM Guru, UK
• Ed Naughton, Chairman, Institute of Project Management, Ireland
• Klaus Pannenbacker, former Chair of IPMA, founder of GPM, Germany
• David Pells, Fellow of PMA, PMI & SOVNET, Managing Editor & Director, PMForum, USA
• Dr. Daniel Scheifele, former President & Chair of IPMA, Switzerland
• Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka, President of PMAJ, Japan
• Prof. Vladimir Voropayev, Founder and President of SOVNET, Russia
• Dr. Bill Young, President, AIPM, Australia
• Veikko Valila, Secy. General and former President, IPMA, Finland

The Global PM Symposium in India will deal with managing complex projects & programs, and especially those that affect India and the Asian region. Indian government and industry leaders, along with world class speakers and professional leaders, will come together in New Delhi to share their experience and knowledge with the expected delegates from over 15 countries.
For more information, visit http://www.cepm.com/gs09/Home.html  or contact gs@pma-india.org  or info@pma-india.org.  

The Programme Director is Adesh Jain, Honorary Chairman of PMA. The 17^th Global Project Management Symposium is being jointly organized by Project Management Associates (PMA) and the Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM), in association with the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the International Construction Project Management Association (ICPMA).

Founded in 1993, Project Management Associates (PMA) is a non-profit registered professional body of projects and business managers, aimed at strengthening project management in India. PMA's vision is to be an apex agency for promotion of project thinking in India and worldwide for continuously enhancing delivery potential of programs and projects, thereby providing competitive edge to organizations, and growth to individuals. Based in New Delhi and with branches in Hyderabad, Pune and Ranchi, PMA serves members and stakeholders throughout India. PMA is the Indian national association member of IPMA. For more information about PMA, visit www.pma-india.org.