2025 PMI Award Winners

2025 PMI Award Winners

Congratulations to all our incredible 2025 award winners

Your hard work, leadership, and community spirit make PMI the home of the industry’s most accomplished individuals, teams, and organizations, driving the profession forward and shaping its future.

2025 Project of the Year Winner
  • Baltic Synchronization Project

    PMI Construction/Infrastructure Project Award

    Lithuania

The PMI Project of the Year award recognizes a complex project that best delivers superior performance of project management practices, superior organizational results, and positive impacts on society.

2025 PMO of the Year Winner
PMI Awards
  • PT Pegadaian

    Asia Pacific PMO of the Year

    Indonesia

The PMO of the Year Award honors PMOs around the world that have exemplified superior performance and significantly contributed value to their organizations.

2025 PMI Eric Jenett Person of the Year

Person of the Year
  • Hsueh-Chien Teng

    Asia Pacific

The PMI Eric Jenett Person of the Year Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to project management through leadership, technical project management, and strategic and business management acumen.

2025 Rising Leader Winner
Rising Leader Award
  • Marco Romero
    Sub-Saharan Africa, Angola

Our Rising Leader award features a young professional who has made a significant impact in advancing Project Management standards, practices, and ethics.

PMIEF Kerzner Award

The PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) Kerzner Award for Excellence in Project Management honors individuals who demonstrate dedication, original concepts, and leadership in Project Management for social good.

Meet the 2025 recipient:

PMIEF Kerzner Award
  • Giovana Cury
    Latin America

For 35 years the PMI Educational Foundation has empowered youth around the world with project management education. The PMIEF Kerzner Award honors that mission.

2025 Global Chapter Awards

Together, the Chapter of the Year and Chapter Leadership Impact Awards acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and impact of PMI chapters and their leaders, inspiring others to maximize project success to elevate our world.

Chapter of the Year Winner

Chennai Chapter
  • Chennai Chapter
    South Asia

The PMI Chapter of the Year Award celebrates the achievements of PMI chapters that show exceptional leadership, innovation, and contributions to the project management profession.

Chapter Leadership Impact Award

Our Chapter Leadership Impact Award recognizes exceptional leadership and volunteer contributions made by PMI chapter leaders to enhance their chapter or region.

Seven honorees have been selected this year, representing each of PMI’s seven managed regions.

Meet the 2025 Winners
Chapter leadership winners
  • Joshua Allan Netto Jr.
    PMI Malaysia Chapter
  • Astghik Sahakyan
    PMI Armenia Chapter
Chapter leadership winners
  • Ana Elizabeth Vega
    PMI Bajio, Mexico Chapter
  • Mira Thoumy Ghanem
    PMI Lebanon Chapter
Chapter leadership winners
  • Mahesh Deshpande
    PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
  • Palash Gupta
    PMI Bangalore India Chapter
Chapter leadership winners
  • Stéphanie-Laure Zoro
    PMI Ivory Coast Chapter

Research & Academic Awards

The PMI Research & Academic Awards recognize individuals and published works that significantly advance practical and theoretical practices of project management.

Meet the 2025 Winners
Academic Research winners
  • Anna Hällström

    James. R Snyder Student Paper Award

  • Martina Huemann

    PMI Research Achievement

    UK & Austria

Academic Research winners
  • Sujuan Zhang

    PMI Young Researcher

    Australia

  • Yael Grushka-Cockayne

    Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award

    United States

2025 PMI Fellow Honorees

Congratulations to all our incredible honorees

Your hard work, leadership and community spirit make PMI the home of the industry’s most accomplished individuals, teams, and organizations, driving the profession forward and shaping its future!
Shankar Sankaran

Shankar Sankaran

Australia, Asia Pacific

Professor Shankar Sankaran of UTS is a visionary educator, climate advocate, and award-winning researcher who has guided over 50 graduate students, authored key project management texts, and champions a “can-do” approach that turns projects into meaningful, value-driven outcomes.

Jennifer Tharp

Jennifer Tharp

USA, North America

Jennifer Tharp, PMI Past Board Chair, UC Berkeley educator, and governance consultant, has spent over two decades strengthening PMI and government strategy, designing governance structures, and ensuring that bold strategies are executed effectively—turning vision into reality across California and beyond.

 

Margareth Carneiro

Margareth Carneiro

Brazil, Latin America

Margareth Carneiro, PMI Past Board Member and Agile Alliance leader, has led groundbreaking projects since 1987, authored multiple books, and dedicated decades to expanding project management in Latin America, empowering communities, shaping ethical practices, and fostering growth across the region.

 

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