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Mounir Ajam - The Long Term Volunteer

1990 – 1994, Exxon Chemical, Houston, Texas

Participated in various corporate social responsibility initiatives by the company, most specifically a Volunteer Involvement Program to fix housing for the poor and tutoring underprivileged high school students in science and mathematics.

1998 - 2000, Arab Community Centre, Houston, Texas

Actively participated in the Arabic Community in Houston, Texas. The volunteer work included using project management expertise to provide services for the development of a community center in Houston.

2002 - 2008, Project Management Institute

Mr. Ajam have been an active volunteer with PMI since he joined in 1998 but he started to assume leadership role in 2003 onward. In 2005 he was invited to join a 5-member global team as Global Advisors for the Registered Education Program at PMI.

He participated on the project team for various standards developed by PMI, including the PMBOK® Guide and the first edition of the Standards for Program and Portfolio Management. Was invited and participated twice to join the judging team on PMI Education Provider and PMI Education Product Awards.

Mr. Ajam was also invited to join the 5-member Congress Action Team for the PMI 2008 EMEA Congress in Malta. Mr. Ajam was also well known across the GCC for his service to PMI since he actively led a team of volunteers in the Certification and Education Team for PMI GCC Chapter where the team launched new programs leading to more than tripling the number of certified PMP in the GCC.

Due to his significant contribution to PMI, he was invited to join the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class, a one year program. Mr. Ajam graduated from the program in 2007.

Global Project & Process Management Association

2006 - Present

Since 2006, Mr. Ajam was actively working with a group of volunteers toward establishing a project management association in the UAE. However, for various reasons that did not happen until 2007 where Dubai Knowledge Village offered to help in establishing the association and the effort led to announcing the launch of the Global Project and Process Management Association (GPPMA) in late 2007 with final registration obtained in summer of 2008. Mr. Ajam was elected chairman of the first board of directors from 2008 to 2009 and was just re-elected chairman of the board for a two-years term.

Volunteer Leader

Mr. Mounir Ajam has been a volunteer in one capacity or another since he was a teenager tutoring neighbors and friends in Math or leading a boys and girls scout teams. His various volunteer activities were in different areas but in recent years the focus shifted to volunteering for the growth of the emerging profession of project management and on ways to use his project management global experience for the community. His various volunteer roles led to leadership roles as a volunteer and some of these roles are listed here:

1. 2003-2006: contributed to various standards by the Project Management Institute (PMI); such as PMBOK® Guide and Program and Portfolio Management;

2. 2005: Certification & Education Director for the Regional Chapter of the PMI; launched the Low Fee Seminars program where volunteers help others to prepare for the PMP® Exam at a fraction of the cost offered by the chapter and other providers;

3. 2005-2007: Member of an eight-members global Advisory Group to PMI Registered Education Providers program;

4. 2005 & 2006: Judge on Educational Product of the Year and Provider of the Year Awards for PMI;

5. 2006-2007: Invited to join the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class and graduated from the one-year program in May 2007;

6. 2007-2008: Member of an five-members Congress Project Action Team for the 2008 PMI EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Congress;

7. 2007: Co-founder of the Global Project & Process Management Association (GPPMA), launched from Dubai to the world

8. 2007-2009: First chairman of the board for GPPMA

9. 2009-Present: Re-elected as Chairman of the Board for GPPMA for two years term