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Ricardo Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP
Chairman of the Board for the
Project Management Institute (PMI),
Author, Professor, Entrepreneur
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Ricardo Viana Vargas is a project,
portfolio and risk management
specialist. During the past 15
years, he has been responsible for
over 80 major projects in various
countries in the areas of petroleum,
energy, infrastructure,
telecommunications, information
technology and finances, comprising
an investment portfolio of over 18
billion dollars.
He is the first Latin American
volunteer to be elected Chairman of
the Board for the Project Management
Institute (PMI), the largest project
management organization in the world
with close to 500,000 members and
certified professionals in 175
countries.
Ricardo Vargas has written ten books
on project management, published in
Portuguese and English, which have
sold over 200,000 copies throughout
the world. In 2005 he received the
PMI Distinguished Award for his
contribution to the development of
project management and the PMI
Professional Development Product of
the Year award for the PMDome®
workshop, considered the best
project management training solution
in the world.
He is a project management professor
for various MBA courses, and
actively participates on editorial
boards for specialized journals in
Brazil and the United States. Vargas
is a recognized reviewer of the
PMBOK Guide, the most important
reference in the world for project
management, and also chaired the
official translation of PMBOK into
Portuguese.
He is a chemical engineer and holds
a master’s degree in Industrial
Engineering from UFMG (Federal
University of Minas Gerais). Ricardo
Vargas also holds a Master
Certificate in Project Management
from George Washington University
and is certified both as a Project
Management Professional (PMP) by PMI
and as IPMA-B by the International
Project Management Association. He
attended the Program on Negotiation
for Executives at Harvard Law
School.
Over an eleven year timeframe, which
began in 1995, Ricardo, in
conjunction with two partners,
established one of the most solid
Brazilian businesses in the area of
technology, project management and
outsourcing, which had a staff of
4,000 collaborators and an annual
income of 50 million dollars in
2006, when Ricardo Vargas sold his
share of the company to dedicate
himself on a fulltime basis to the
internationalization of his project
management activities.
He is a member of the Association
for Advancement of Cost Engineering
(AACE), the American Management
Association (AMA), the International
Project Management Association (IPMA),
the Institute for Global Ethics and
the Professional Risk Management
International Association (PRMIA).
For complete
information please check his profile
on
Linkedin.
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