Ralf Muller is professor of project management at BI Norwegian Business School and adjunct professor at University of Technology Sydney and Dalian University of Technology in China. He is editor-in-chief of the Project Management Journal and a fellow of both the Project Management Institute (PMI(R)) and the Centre for Excellence in Project Management. Before joining academia, he spent thirty years in the industry consulting with large enterprises and governments in more than fifty different countries for better project management and governance. He also held related line management positions, such as the worldwide director of project management at NCR Corporation.