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Interview with Dr Vladimir Obradovic

 

Project Management is Important if We Want to

Make the World a Better Place

Interview with Dr Vladimir Obradovic

Author, Editor, Professor, Leader
Vice President for Finance and Operations
International Project Management Association

Interviewed by Yasmina Khelifi
International Correspondent, PM World Journal
Paris, France

Introduction to the interviewee

Vladimir Obradović, PhD is a full professor and Head of the Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Management at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. As a visiting professor, he has been engaged at several other universities.

With over 20 years of experience, he is a leading global expert in project management and a regional expert in the public sector.

Vladimir Obradović is Vice President for Finance and Operations at International Project Management Association – IPMA, which has members from 70 countries, and President of the Serbian Project Management Association – IPMA Serbia. He is also the editor-in-chief of the European Project Management Journal and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Project Management, the top-ranked journal in the field, as well as Project Leadership and Society and Information Technologies and Learning Tools Journal, both of which are renowned international publications.

In his teaching and scientific endeavors, he achieved noteworthy results. Publication of over two hundred scientific and professional papers, as well as student evaluations of teaching and mentorship, participation in committees, and support of student organization projects, have validated the scientific results.

He participated in over eighty professional and scientific research projects.

He is fluent in English, is familiar with German, and is presently learning Spanish.

He is married and the father of three children.


Interview

Q1:    First, thank you for accepting an interview request from PMWJ. You are Vice President of IPMA. Could you highlight your main duties, please?

Dr Vladimir Obradovic (Obradovic):  Thank you so much for letting me share my thoughts with the readers of your esteemed Journal. This is an especially important year for us because IPMA is marking 60 years of existence. As the oldest project management association in the world, IPMA has a large ecosystem whose main goal is to help the project management profession grow around the world. Within IPMA, we tend to work together as a team, with collaborative effort and synergy that span different areas.

In order to help with that collaboration, I’m focussing on helping IPMA with its operations and finances. Our operations team, which is led by our COO, is like the heart of our organisation. They basically bring all the great project ideas from the world’s project minds to life and help professionals, organisations and societies. We work together to make the IPMA Awards and Recognitions, Events, Certification, and other important areas the best in the world.

Q2: What are your thoughts about education in project management?

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How to cite this interview: Khelifi, Y. (2025). Project Management is Important if We Want to Make the World a Better Place, Interview with Dr Vladimir Obradovic, PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue II, February. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pmwj149-Feb2025-Khelifi-Interview-with-Dr-Vladimir-Obradovic-IPMA.pdf


About the Interviewer


Yasmina Khelifi

Paris, France

 

Yasmina Khelifi, PMP, PMI- ACP, PMI-PBA is an experienced project manager in the telecom industry. Along with her 20-year career at Orange S.A. (the large French multinational telecommunications corporation), she sharpened her global leadership skills, delivering projects with major manufacturers and SIM makers. Yasmina strives for building collaborative bridges between people to make international projects successful. She relies on three pillars: project management skills, the languages she speaks, and a passion for sharing knowledge.

She is a PMP certification holder since 2013, a PMI- ACP and PMI-PBA certification holder since 2020. She is an active volunteer member at PMI France and PMI UAE, and a member of PMI Germany Chapter. French-native, she can speak German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and she is learning Arabic. Yasmina loves sharing her knowledge and experiences at work, in her volunteers’ activities at PMI, and in projectmanagement.com as a regular blogger. She is also the host and co-founder of the podcast Global Leaders Talk with Yasmina Khelifi to help people in becoming better international leaders.

Yasmina can be contacted at https://yasminakhelifi.com/ or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasminakhelifi-pmp-telecom/

Visit her correspondent profile at https://pmworldlibrary.net/yasmina-khelifi/

To view other works by Yasmina, visit her author showcase in the PM World Library at https://pmworldlibrary.net/authors/yasmina-khelifi/