Ralf Müller is Professor of Project Management and former Associate Dean at BI Norwegian Business School. He lectures and researches in leadership, governance, organizational project management and research methods. Awards he has received include the 2016 Fellow of the Institute Award of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the 2015 PMI Research Achievement Award, and the 2012 IPMA Research Award. He is Senior Editor of the Project Management Journal. Before joining academia, he spent thirty years in consulting with large enterprises and governments in more than fifty different countries, including as Worldwide Director of Project Management at the NCR Corporation.