Heartbreaking information from the 11th IPMA Research Conference in Nanjing, China
With deep sadness, we have to inform you about Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schoper’s unexpected passing during an IPMA conference in Nanjing, China, on April 22.
Since early 2021, she has served internationally as Vice President of IPMA, and previously held other positions. She always represented project management like no other, both in her everyday professional life at the university in Berlin, within the framework of the German Project Management Association as well as in many countries at conferences, workshops and in meetings. Her life was filled with the desire to inspire young people, especially women, to the cause of project management.
She established an international benchmark with her studies on the projectification of the economy in Germany and beyond. She was an enthusiastic sailor and always enjoyed dancing and her life. That is why it is so inconceivable that she is no longer with us.
We will keep the memory of Yvonne Schoper alive and her life’s work will always be remembered.
On behalf of the Executive Board, management office and employees, we extend our deepest sympathies to Yvonne’s family.
For those that wish to offer messages of condolences to Yvonne’s family, please reply to info@ipma.world.
Regards,
The IPMA Management Office
IPMA Executive Board
GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V.
Amin Saidoun is Executive Director of International Project Management Association, an international federation of project management associations around the world. Amin Saidoun, is an economist and graduate from London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is a project manager who gained his 20 years of experience in international projects both in medium sized and multinational organisations in auditing, consulting and the logistics domain. As Executive Director of IPMA, he is in charge of the area Finance and Administration, Business Development of IPMA activities in Africa and the Middle-East and involved is various internal development projects and governance. He is author and co-author on various project management and business administration related articles. Among his areas of interest: intercultural project management
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