At the Opening General Session of the PMI Global Congress 2005 - EMEA in Edinburgh, Scotland, PMI announced that Professor Peter W.G. Morris was the recipient of the PMI Research Achievement Award for 2005.

According to PMI the PMI Research Achievement Award "recognizes and honors an individual who has advanced the concepts, knowledge and/or practices of project management through professionally-conducted and authored project management research."

Peter Morris is Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College, London, Visiting Professor of Engineering Project Management at UMIST, and Director of the UCL/UMIST-based Centre for Research in the Management of Projects. He is also Executive Director of INDECO Ltd, an international projects-oriented management consultancy.

He is a past Chairman and Vice President of the UK Association for Project Management and Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association. Prior to joining INDECO, he was a Main Board Director of Bovis Limited. Between 1984 and 1989 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Executive Director of the Major Projects Association. Prior to his work at Oxford, he was with Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and previously with Booz Allen Hamilton in New York and with Sir Robert McAlpine in London.

He is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management, Institution of Civil Engineers, and Chartered Institute of Building and has a PhD, MSc and BSc, all from UMIST.

He has written approximately 100 papers on project management, as well as several books:

• The Anatomy of Major Projects (Wiley, 1988),
• The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1997),
• Co-editor of The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (2004).

PMFORUM has proudly featured articles by Peter Morris, including a 1999 paper on bodies of knowledge entitled Body Building.

PMFORUM congratulates Peter Morris on this well-deserved achievement.