Ronggui Ding, PhD in system engineering, Professor at the Management School of Shandong University, "Excellent Talent in the New Century" awardee by the Ministry of Education.He is the Global Research Coordinator for the International Project Management Association (IPMA), one of the judges of the IPMA Global Project Excellence Award, a Chinese Committee board member for the Global Project Management Degree Accreditation Center of Project Management Institute (PMI). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Project Management Review and an associate editor of Project Leadership and Society.He is the Lead Investigator for a number of competitive research grants funded by the national bodies such as China National Natural Science Fund, China National Soft Science Fund etc. He has been awarded a number of scientific and technological awards at the provincial and ministerial level.