Teaching Fellow at NCPM

Mary Mckinlay

BA FAPM MIoD

Mary Mckinlay is Teaching Fellow at NCPM and Managing Director of Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd Project Assessment and Training.

She is a Board Member and Trustee of APM and a former Vice President of the International Project Management Association. She is an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at ESC Lille. Mary's expertise is in project and programme management, risk management and systems engineering. Her special field of interest is aerospace and defence.

Mary has worked in project management for almost 30 years as practitioner, researcher and trainer. Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career on the Tornado aircraft project and has subsequently worked on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics (Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT). One of these projects was to generate a process model for project management. This underlined the need for project management improvement and influenced her later work.

Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered training workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and also an active member of Institute of Directors.

Mary’s main professional interests are in the principles and theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between industry and academe. Consequently she has been working trans-nationally and championing the establishment of standards to make this possible. She is also exploring the use of systems engineering principles as a foundation for effective project management.

Contact details

Mary Mckinlay, Teaching Fellow

Email: mary@marymckinlayprojects.com

Telephone: +44 (0)1707 28 9399