Dr Martina Huemann is Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business where she heads the Project Management Group in the Department Strategy and Innovation and is the Academic Director of the Professional MBA Program: Project Management. For her research on Human Resource Management in Project-oriented Organizations, she received the IPMA Research Award 2015. Currently she researches project careers, the creation power of projects, stakeholder engagement and the consideration of sustainable development principles in large infrastructure projects. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Project Management and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Project Leadership and Society. She has strong links in research and practice communities, and served on the IPMA Research Management Board and on the PMI Academic Advisory Board. As an ambassedor of NETLIPSE, she contributes her knowledge to an international network on managing large infrastructure projects in Europe.

Seminar topic:

• The power of projects to create a better future.

Projects possess an inherent creation power. They enable us to establish new hospitals or schools, build or rebuild all kinds of infrastructure and organize for sustainable transformation. Especially Mega Projects are forces of societal change and support us in turning ideas into life. The presentation discusses challenges and opportunities of delivering infrastructure and offers stakeholder-orientation as an essential principle in contemporary Project Management. We provide concrete methods to consider sustainable development principles in managing projects for co-creating a better future.

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