Prasad S. Kodukula
- Adjunct Industry Professor
Prasad S. Kodukula is a PMI Fellow, USA Today best-selling author, thought leader, speaker, coach, inventor, and entrepreneur with more than 35 years of professional experience. A global ambassador of project management, he has lectured on project management topics in nearly 50 countries and worked with 40 Fortune 100 companies (e.g., Abbott, BP, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Dow, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Kraft, Motorola, Stryker, and United Technologies).
Kodukula is co-founder and CEO of two companies: Kodukula & Associates, Inc., a project management coaching and consulting company; and NeoChloris, Inc., a renewable energy company. He also teaches project management at the University of Chicago.
He was recognized three times by the Project Management Institute as “Best of the Best in Project Management” with the 2020 PMI Fellow Award, 2016 Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award, and 2010 PMI Distinguished Contribution Award. One of the companies he co-founded was recognized as the most innovative environmental technology company in the state of Illinois in 2005. Kodukula also received prestigious awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Kansas for outstanding leadership in education/training and environmental improvement.
He is a co-author or contributing author of 11 books and more than 40 articles and holds four patents.
Education
M.C. Project Management, George Washington University
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
M.S. Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
M.S. Environmental Science, Rutgers University
Research Interests
Project risk management
Quantitative risk analysis
Project portfolio management
Decarbonization
CO2 remediation
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
Project Management Institute
American Association of Cost Engineering International
American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
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