Rodney Turner is Professor of Project Management at Kingston Business School and at SKEMA Business School, in Lille France where he is Scientific Director for the PhD in Project and Programme Management at.  He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and the Kemmy Business School, Limerick.  During the academic year 2012-3 he has been Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

Rodney is the author or editor of sixteen books, including The Handbook of Project-based Management, the best-selling book published by McGraw-Hill, and the Gower Handbook of Project Management.  He is editor of The International Journal of Project Management.  He lectures on project management worldwide.  His research areas cover project management in small to medium-enterprises, the management of complex projects, the governance of project management, including ethics and trust, project leadership and Human Resource Management in the project-oriented firm.

Rodney is Vice President, Honorary Fellow and former chairman of the UK’s Association for Project Management, and Honorary Fellow and former President and Chairman of the International Project Management Association.  From 1997 to 2005, he returned to the process plant industry as Operations Director of the Benelux Region of the European Construction Institute.  He is a member of the Institute of Directors, and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Governance, Trust and Ethics in Project Management; Project Management in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises; Emotionally Competent Project Leadership; Leadership of Program and Portfolio Managers; Monitoring success of complex projects;  Human Resource Management in the Project Oriented Organization