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Origin

Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM) formed in 1992 is the foremost training and consulting organisation in India in the field of modern Project Management.

CEPM was established to address Adesh Jain's vision of providing an effective platform to manage business changes and its transition processes. He was confident that more and more companies will orient their operations using project management methodologies and that project management will become a high growth field in the 21st century.

CEPM's experience in delivering consultancy, training and PM software solutions is highly rated by industry. CEPM provides project management training via in-company and public seminars and supports both critical path and critical chain based enterprise-wide project management solutions.

CEPM is a leader in training professionals in the effective use of PM tools such as Sciforma's Project Scheduler and Communicator and Microsoft's MS Project.

About Adesh Jain

Mr. Adesh Jain’s contribution to Project Management is having an immense impact globally. He is the first non-European to become the President and Chairman, CoD of IPMA in 2005 & 2007 and Dy Chairman, CoD of IPMA in 2008, since its formation in 1965. IPMA comprises of 50 Members Associations from all over the world. He is now the Vice Chair (Technical) of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC) which comprises of 50 countries from all over the world. Adesh is a legendary shaping the PM profession globally and the foremost sought after Keynote presenter besides creator of the new concept of project thinking. India is privileged to have persons like Mr. Adesh Jain, in contributing to the growth of project management with passion. Adesh is truly, the father of Project Management movement in India.
-David Pells, Chairman Project Management Forum
and Fellow of PMI, USA

Mr. Adesh Jain, Honorary President, Project Management Associates (PMA-India), has been named a global advisor for PM Forum. He is also Director of Centre for Excellence in Project Management, President of PM Guru, Inc. (USA) and Chair of the IPMA Nation to Nation Forum. Adesh was named a Fellow of IPMA in 2006. He is also a Fellow of AIPM, Australia, CIOB, UK, CSI, India and AIMA, India. Adesh Jain

Adesh received his B.Sc in Mathematics (1962) and B.E. in Electrical Engineering (1965) from one of the foremost global institutes - the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his Masters of Engineering in Control Systems (1967) at Carleton University, Canada. He is the first IPMA Level A certified professional from India, in 2001. He is the Technical Vice Chair of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC) for the term 2010-12. ICEC comprises of 50 countries from all over the world.

In 1982, he became the Chairman of the Heavy Engineering Group comprising of 22 large Public Sector Undertakings. In 1991, the President of India honored him with a Fellowship award for laying a strong foundation for the IT industry in India. He is also a recipient of the First Global Project Management Leadership Award, conferred on him at the 16th Global Symposium in New Delhi on December 16, 2008.

He was one of 6 project management leaders elected to the Steering Committee for the Global Project Management Forum in Boston in 1996.

Adesh received the 1997 Distinguished Contribution Award from PMI for laying a strong foundation of PM globally. He was the first non North American to receive this prestigious award. In 2005, Adesh became the first non-European President of IPMA and in 2007, he became the first non-European Chairman of the CoD, IPMA. In 1995, the then Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, gave the Valedictory address in his 2 day workshop on PM in Guwahati, Assam.

Adesh Jain has addressed or trained over 50,000 people world wide. He is the author of the book “New Dimensions in Project Management” (1992) and over 50 articles. He has been invited to talk on Project Thinking at major International Conferences and Seminars, the first one in Stockholm, Sweden in August 1999.

He is the first Asian to become the President of International Construction Project Management Association (ICPMA) in 2008. He is also the President of International Construction Project Management Union (ICPMU). He is Honorary Chairman of China Project Management Committee (CPMC), and is the first non-Chinese to enjoy such a privilege. For many years, he was the chair of the Jury to assess International Outstanding Project Managers in China. In 2001, Adesh Jain was invited to give a Keynote presentation in the Great Hall of China at a conference organized by UNIDO. His topic was the contribution of Project Thinking in smoothing Mergers and Acquisitions.

Adesh was the organizer and manager of the 19th IPMA World Congress held in New Delhi from 13-16 November 2005. It was the largest IPMA Congress ever held with over 1200 delegates from 70 countries.

Adesh is a much sought after Keynote speaker globally and has given more than 40 Keynote presentations on varied topics of project management at:

6th International Project Management Conference in Tehran, Iran in Jan. 2011
The IPMA World Congress, Istanbul in Nov. 2010
5th International Project Management Conference in Iran in Oct. 2009
CIB Joint International Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia in Sep. 2009
The Congress – French PM Association, Paris in Oct. 2008
Project Management Asia Conference 2008, Singapore in Oct. 2008
The International Luncheon at the Annual Meeting of AACE, Toronto in Jun. 2008
The PM04 Conference held in Greece in May. 2008
The 3rd Construction Management Seoul Forum, Korea in Apr. 2008
The PMA Japan Conference, Tokyo in Mar. 2008
The PM Congress in Cracow, Poland in Jun. 2007 and at Barcelona in Nov. 2007 on Project Thinking
The ICPMA Annual Conference held in New York in May. 2007
The International Conference in Phuket in Feb. 2007
The 1st International Project Management Conference held in Istanbul in Dec. 2006
The Nordnet Conference held in Stockholm in Nov. 2006
The 20th IPMA World Congress held in Shanghai in Oct. 2006

The Government of India (Department of Public Enterprises) has appointed Adesh as a member of a high level Task Force to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) for leading CPSEs in 2006 and he continues to be a Member. He is also appointed as an Independent Director of NTPC Ltd, by the President of India. He was one of the very few individuals from Asia to be invited by NASA to address the participants of ‘PM Challenge – 2010’ in Galveston, Texas, USA in Feb 2010. In short, Adesh Jain is a legendary figure whose passion and dedication for strengthening project management is recognized worldwide. He is a visionary leader who has helped to shape the PM profession globally.