Russ Archibald has over 50 years of broad international experience as practitioner, consultant and teacher in program/project management, strategic business planning, and as a corporate executive and mechanical engineer. His consulting clients include major telecommunications, information technology, industrial, engineering, construction, consumer product, utility and service companies in twelve countries, plus federal and local government agencies and development banks.

He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute, a PMI Fellow and an un-acknowledged PMI Co-Founder (member number 6,) and also an Honorary Fellow in the Association of Project Management/APM (UK)/International Project Management Association/IPMA. Russ has participated in a number of management audits of nuclear power plant and major pipeline projects, and has presented expert witness testimony to state and federal regulatory bodies on such projects. He has also served as an expert witness on other types of construction projects, and on litigation concerning development of computer-based software programs for project planning, scheduling, and control.

Russ Archibald holds bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering (Univ. of Missouri 1948 and Univ. of Texas 1956), an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Strategy, Programme, and Project Management from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lille, France (2005), and is listed in Who's Who in the World.

Russ participated in the pre-formation discussions with fellow PMI Co-Founders Eric Jenett and Jim Syder in New Orleans in 1968 and 1969, was one of the five founding trustees prior to PMI incorporation, and presented the first paper at the first formation meeting of PMI October 9-10, 1969, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA. You can download that paper, "Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling the Efforts of Knowledge Workers," at http://www.pmforum.org/library/second-edition/2008/PDFs/Archibald-1-08.pdf.