Shankar Sankaran is Professor of Organisational Project Management (OPM) in Australia at the University of Technology Sydney. Shankar teaches advanced courses in the Master of Project Management Program including key features of OPM. He was a Chief Investigator of two Australian Research Council funded research grants. He is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Project Management. Shankar comes to academia after several years of experience as a major project manager and technical director in Yokogawa Electric Asia. He is currently involved in setting up a megaproject management research centre at his university.