She holds two doctoral degrees—one from SKEMA Business School (Lille, France) in Strategy, Programme and Project Management and one from Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi'an, China) in Management Science and Engineering. Her research interests are in program management, leadership, and project governance. In 2011, she was awarded the “IPMA Outstanding Research Contribution of a Young Researcher Award” and in 2012, the “China Project Management Research Contribution Award.” She has participated in several international research projects sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Norwegian Centre for Project Management. She can be contacted at jingtingshao@126.com