Lavagnon Ika

Lavagnon Ika is a Benin-born, Canadian project management scientist, academic, thought leader, and author. He is professor of Project Management, the 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 an 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 how to make them work and deliver more success in the short and long terms. He is also known for his research on project success and for his contributions to research on managing global development projects, those initiatives that seek to address the challenges of sustainable and equitable poverty reduction and improvement of living standards in the Global South. In particular, he has sought to strengthen project management theory and practice in Africa. His work focuses on project management, primarily on project management and strategy implementation, major infrastructure delivery, international development, grand challenges, project behavior, and project performance. He twice received the Global Research Award from the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He is the coauthor of the 2024 Project Management Institute (PMI) award-winning book titled ''Managing Fuzzy Projects in 3D: A Proven, Multi-Faceted Blueprint for Overseeing Complex Projects''. He is also editor of ''The Cambridge University Handbook of Project Behavior'', a compendium of chapters by project scholars over why large-scale projects take complex out-turns during their complicated life and what can be done about it. Provided by Wikipedia