PhD, FAPM, FBCS, CITP is a full professor at Middlesex University and Visiting Professor in Computer Science in the University of Iceland. He is the founder and Director of the National Centre for Project Management, an inter-disciplinary centre of excellence operating in collaboration with industry, government and the learned societies. He has been named by the Association for Project Management as one of the top 10 “movers and shapers” in project management and has also been voted Project Magazine’s Academic of the Year for his contribution in “integrating and weaving academic work with practice”. Following industrial and consultancy experience in managing IT projects, Professor Dalcher gained his PhD in Software Engineering from King’s College, University of London. In 1992, he founded and has continued as chair of the Forensics Working Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems.

Professor Dalcher is active in numerous international committees, steering groups and editorial boards. He is heavily involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses and tutorials. He has written over 200 papers and book chapters on software engineering and project management. He is the editor of two major new book series, Advances in Project Management, and Fundamentals of Project Management both published by Gower Publishing. His research interests include project success and failure; maturity models; capability and competence in projects; agile, extreme and lean project management; benchmarking; risk and opportunity management; decision making; chaos and complexity; leadership; ethics and responsibility, change management; evidence-based practice; and, reflective project practice. He has built a reputation as leader and innovator in the area of practice-based education and reflection in project management. He works with many major industrial and commercial organisations and government bodies in the UK and beyond. Professor Dalcher is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and the British Computer Society, and a Member of the Project Management Institute, the Academy of Management, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a Chartered IT Practitioner and a Member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the prestigious David I. Cleland project management award.