The Association for Project Management is a British professional organisation for project and programme management. It received a Royal Charter in 2017, and is a registered charity. It has over 37,500 individual and 550 corporate members, and is the largest professional body of its kind in the United Kingdom. The head office is in Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. It is the certification body in the United Kingdom for the International Project Management Association.
History
The association was founded in 1972 as the UK branch of INTERNET, now the International Project Management Association. Weaver (2007) recalled, that: "The UK branch of INTERNET (now the APM), was originated by the ‘pioneering seven’ whose meeting at an INTERNET (later IPMA) expert seminar in Zurich in 1971 inspired them to start a UK branch, which held its first meeting in London in May 1972. The first executive meeting on INTERNET(UK) was held in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, Stockholm on 13 May 1972 during the 3rd annual world congress of INTERNET. Jack Grimshaw was the original chairman, others in the founding group included Dr Jim Gordon and Dennis Gower. Annual membership fees were set at £1, and within a month membership had reached 78 (PMI at the time were charging £7). With the emergence of the internet in the 1990s, the global project management association INTERNET was renamed International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the UK Branch Association for Project Management (APM).
It received its Royal Charter on 6 January 2017.
Presidents
1972 - 1978 : Geoffrey Trimble
1978 - 1984 : David Firnberg
1984 - 1991 : Monty Finniston
1991 - 2000 : Sir Bob Reid
2000 - 2004 : Tony Ridley
2004 - 2010 : Martin Barnes
2012 - 2015 : Tom Taylor
2015 - 2019 : David Waboso
2019 - : Sue Kershaw
Chair of Trustees
1972 - 1977 : Jack Grimshaw
1977 - 1979 : Herbert Walton
1982 - 1986 : Eric Gabriel
1986 - 1991 : Martin Barnes
1991 - 1993 : Tim Carter
1993 - 1996 : Peter Morris
1996 - 1998 : Rodney Turner
2000 - 2003 : Donald Heath
2003 - 2004 : Miles Shepherd
2004 - 2008 : Tom Taylor
2008 - 2012 : Mike Nichols
2012 - 2014 : Tom Taylor
2014 - 2016 : Steve Wake
2016 - 2020 : John McGlynn
2020 - 2022 : Debbie Lewis " 2022 - : Milla Mazilu "