- Must demonstrate a minimum of 8 years of experience in the project management profession.
- The lead nominator for a nominee must be a PMI member in good standing.
- Self-nomination is permitted only for candidates with a PMI membership in good standing.
- Current PMI staff, PMI contractors, and/or PMI consultants are not eligible to submit a self-nomination or act as a nominator for this award.
- Current PMI Board members and members of PMI Board Reporting Committees are not eligible to self-nominate or act as a nominator for this award.
- PMI reserves the right not to select any winner for a particular year if the evaluations performed indicate that nominations do not meet the stated criteria.
Recent Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 and 2023 Eric Jenett Person of the Year winners. Learn more about these remarkable individuals below.

2024

Martin Harri
2023
Mr. Jenett was PMI’s third member and first Project Management Professional (PMP®). A PMI Fellow, Mr. Jenett was PMI’s President in 1971, Chairman in 1972, and Secretary from 1975 to 1976. A founding member of the PMI Houston Chapter, Mr. Jenett was honored by PMI in 1975 with a Distinguished Contribution Award and a Tribute to Lifetime Achievement in 2010.
He presented at numerous PMI seminars and symposiums; served on a number of panels; and published a variety of articles in the Project Management Quarterly, later to become the Project Management Journal®, as well as a number of other technical publications. He wrote and lectured on technical and project management topics with more than 40 publications and presentations to his credit.