Beverly Pasian's career is one of a project management practitioner and researcher. For more than 30 years, she has managed, taught, and conducted research in the public sector around the world. She has dozens of courses, papers, and presentations to her credit along with master's degrees (in education and business), a doctorate in project management (2011) and a doctorate in business administration (2023), as well as expert and leadership participation in the IEEE and IPMA are ongoing. One of the best decisions of her professional life was to pivot her focus from project management maturity to smart cities. Investigating the role of projects in maximizing quality of life in smart cities is the most responsible step she wants to take as a researcher with the ultimate goal of working directly with companies and cities to do the same. Dr Nigel L. Williams, PMP is the Reader in Project Management in the Organizations and Systems Management Subject Group at the University of Portsmouth. Before he joined academia, he worked for 15 years as a manager and business consultant for companies in the Caribbean region.

Nigel is one of the founders of the 'Responsible Project Management' website and is a co-author of the RPM manifesto. The site is at https://www.responsiblepm.com/.