Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.