Lavagnon Ika

Lavagnon Ika is a Benin-born, Canadian project management scientist, academic, thought leader, and author. He is a full professor of Project Management, founding Director of the Major Projects Observatory as well as the program director of the MSc in Management at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.

Ika is most known for his contribution to the academic and policy debate on why large-scale projects experience cost overruns and benefit shortfalls worldwide, and what it will take to make them work and deliver more success in both the short and long terms. He has made contributions towards the research on managing global development projects, initiatives that seek to contribute to achieving the challenges of sustainable and equitable poverty reduction and/or improvement of living standards in the Global South. His work focuses on project management, primarily focusing on project management & strategy implementation, major infrastructure delivery, international development, grand challenges, and project behavior and misbehavior. He is twice the recipient of the Global Research Award from the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He is the author of a book titled ''Managing Fuzzy Projects in 3D: A Proven, Multi-Faceted Blueprint for Overseeing Complex Projects''. Provided by Wikipedia