About the Author:


Ali Jaafari, ME, MSc, PhD, CPEng, FIEA

Professor Ali Jaafari is the current President of Asia Pacific International College (APIC), a newly-founded and formally accredited Australian Higher Education Institution devoted to professional and systemic development of managers as well as professionalisation of project-based business units. APIC offers innovative programs in business and project management. He is an Honorary Professor of Project Management at the University of Sydney and has had a long and distinguished academic and industrial track record in Australia and overseas, including more than 20 years of academic service at the University of Sydney. He has acted as a consultant to industry and governments worldwide. Professor Jaafari has authored more than 170 publications and has conducted courses and seminars for over 3,000 executives, managers and professionals in Australia, Asia and Europe. His current research aims at understanding the complexity theory and its impacts on the discipline of management in general and project and program management in particular. APIC is a leading academic institution in terms of the underpinning educational theories and transformative approach to learning and development. APIC’s educational programs are supported by many tools including PH-Check that facilitate the application of the complexity theory to project and program management.