Stephane Tywoniak is a professor of Complex Project Management at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa (Canada). He has over twenty years’ of experience teaching strategy, systems thinking, entrepreneurship and project management. His academic coordination track record includes La Rochelle Business School (Project Management and Entrepreneurship Master’s majors) MBA Director (Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane, Australia -2014/15); Academic Director and Founder, Executive Master in Complex Project Management (QUT, 2007/08 and 2012/14), Ph.D. Coordinator (QUT School of Management, 2008/10).

He has extensive experience in executive education and consulting with major project-based organizations in government and industry (Australia, UK, Canada, USA).

His main research interest is the strategic interactions between business and society in complex projects/programs and strategic decision-making, with a specific interest in how business organizations gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy. He has been published in Organization, the International Journal of Project Management, and other international journals. He serves as the associate editor for project management on the editorial board of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, and as the associate editor for institutional theory and strategy on the editorial board of the Journal of Management and Organization.