Darren Dalcher
Darren Dalcher is a British engineer and senior academic. He is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School and Director of the National Centre for Project Management (NCPM) in the UK. Early life 
He earned a PhD in Software Engineering from King's College London. Career 
He is involved in organising international conferences, and has delivered many keynote addresses and tutorials, including PMexpo, BIS conference and others. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, and Editor of Routledge Frontiers in Project Management. He is the Academic Advisor and Editor of the APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition. Honours
Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management, awarded for outstanding contributions to the practice and discipline of project management
Fellow, British Computer Society
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
Fellow, Chartered Management Institute
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Senior Member, IEEE
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Member, INCOSE
Member, Project Management Institute
Member,  Academy of Management
Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Member, Association for Computing Machinery. Member of the PMI Advisory Board responsible for the David I. Cleland project management award and of the APM Professional Development Board. Named Academic of the Year by Project magazine,
Named one of the top 10 "movers and shapers" in project management in 2008 by the Association for Project Management

Published books 

 Successful IT Projects, Thomson Learning, 2007. Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory, Routledge, 2016. Further Advances in Project Management: Guided Exploration in Unfamiliar Landscapes, Routledge, 2017. The Evolution of Project Management Practice: From Programmes and Contracts to Benefits and Change, Routledge, 2017. Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change, Routledge, 2018. APM Body of Knowledge, 7th Edition, Association for Project Management, 2018. Leading the Project Revolution: Reframing the Human Dynamics of Successful Projects, Routledge, 2019. Rethinking Project Management for a Dynamic and Digital World, Routledge, 2022. References 

British computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of Middlesex University
Alumni of King's College London

Academics of Lancaster University