Shankar Sankaran is professor of organizational project management in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where he is also a core researcher of the Centre of for Informatics Research and Innovation (CiRi). Shankar worked in industry for several years starting as an instrument engineer and moving on to become a project manager, operations manager, and director at Yokogawa Electric Asia in Singapore before entering academia. Shankar is the current chair of the Global Accreditation Centre of the Project Management Institute, past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and committee member of the College of Leadership and Management at Engineers Australia.
