The governance of major public infrastructure projects: the process of translation

Maude Brunet, MPM, PMP, is a Doctoral Student in Management – with a specialization in Project Management – at the School of Business and Management, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) under the supervision of Monique Aubry. Her research interests focus on the governance of major public infrastructure projects; more specifically, she is studying the Quebec (Canada) governance framework for major public infrastructure projects, how it has developed over time, and how it is applied for managing projects into practice. She has ten years of experience in Project Management and is currently a Lecturer at UQAM for the Master’s Program in Project Management. Maude is also actively involved with the organization GP-Quebec, the association for public projects in Québec, and the PMI Montreal Chapter.

Monique Aubry, PhD is a Professor at the School of Business and Management, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada. She teaches in the Graduate Program in Project Management and the Executive MBA program. Her main research interest is in organizing for projects and organizational design, more specifically, project management offices (PMOs). The results of her work have been published in major academic journals in project management and presented at several research and professional conferences. Monique is a Member of the Project Management Research Chair (www.pmchair.uqam.ca) and UQAM’s Health and Society Institute. In 2012, she received the IPMA Research Award for her research on project management offices. She is a Senior Editor for Project Management Journal® and is involved in the PMI Montreal Chapter community of practices on organizational project management where she promotes engaged scholarship and reflexivity among professionals and researchers.