DR. ED HOFFMAN
Director of the NASA Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL)

Dr. Hoffman is responsible for the development of program/project and engineering leaders and teams within NASA.

Under his leadership, the Academy provides the agency’s comprehensive career development curriculum, consulting services for technical and mission teams, knowledge sharing activities and publications that disseminate lessons learned, and special studies on program and project management and engineering. Dr. Hoffman also works outside NASA, with leaders of industry, academia, associations, and other government agencies to build the agency’s capabilities in project management and engineering.

He holds a Doctorate, as well as a Master of Arts and a Master of Science degree from Columbia University in the area of social and organizational psychology, and received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1981. He serves on the faculty of The George Washington University Project Management Program. He is a founding member of the International Project Management Committee, is Chair of the Project Management Institute’s Global Corporate Council, and is frequently a keynote presenter at conferences and association events. Dr. Hoffman has published numerous articles and two books on program and project management, Project Management Success Stories: Lessons of Project Leaders (Wiley, 2000) and Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects (NASA History Division, 2005).