Jeffrey K PintoDr. Jeffrey K. Pinto is the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Dr. Pinto held previous academic appointmets at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Maine. In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the Kemmy School of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the lead faculty member for Penn State's Master of Project Management program. The author or editor of 26 books and over 150 scientific papers that have appeared in a variety of academic and practitioner journals, books, conference proceedings, video lessons, and technical reports, Dr. Pinto's work has been translated into nine languages. He served as editor of the Project Management Journal from 1990 to 1996, is past-department editor for R&D and engineering projects with IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and serves on several other journal editorial boards. With over 25 years' experience in the field of project management, Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMI's Research Achievement Award in 2009 for outstanding contributions to project management research. In 2017, he received the Research Achievement Award from the International Project Management Association for shaping the discipline of project management through his work.

Dr. Pinto has taught and consulted widely in the United States and Europe on a variety of topics, including project management, supply chain management, new product development, information system implementation, organization development, leadership, and conflict resolution.