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PMI® EMEA
Congress 2019
Dublin, Ireland
13–15 May 2019
PMI.org/emea-congress
PMI® Global
Conference 2019
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5–7 October 2019
PMI.org/global-conference
PMO Symposium®
2019
Denver, Colorado, USA
3–6 November 2019
PMI.org/pmo-symposium
MI is saddened to report the
death of Ginger Levin, DPA, PMP,
PgMP. Dr. Levin was a longtime
Among Dr. Levin’s
volunteer roles were
online course tester,
global congress and
research confer-
ence subject matter
expert, reviewer
for several PMI
global standards
and awards evalu-
ator. She was a
peer reviewer of
articles and frequent
book reviewer for
the Project Manage-
ment Journal®.
Dr. Levin often spoke
at PMI and other
project management
events. She was the
second person in the
world to receive the Program Management Professional (PgMP)® certification.
In 2014, she was named recipient of
PMI’s prestigious Eric Jenett Project
Management Excellence Award.
Dr. Levin was the author, editor or
co-author of 20 books in portfolio
management, program management,
project management and business
development. She was a peer reviewer
of articles for the Project Management
Journal. Dr. Levin was especially proud
that six of her students received PMI’s
Student Paper of the Year awards.
Dr. Levin’s career spanned almost 50
years. She was a senior consultant and
educator in project management. Her
specialty areas included project management maturity assessments, metrics,
portfolio management, program man-
In Memoriam:
Ginger Levin
Pagement and the project management office. She worked for numerous Fortune 500 and public-sector clients,
including General Electric, New York
City Transit Authority, Citibank and the
Dr. Levin designed
and developed
numerous proj-
ect management
training courses for
many organizations,
including PMI. She
was an adjunct pro-
fessor at University
of Wisconsin–
Platteville. She also
was a full-time as-
sistant professor for
According to the University of Wisconsin–
Platteville’s website, Dr. Levin’s years
of experience enabled her to empathize
with her students on their projects. She
recalled one of her own assignments that
did not go well. “My worst project was
one that my small company bid on and
won for a government agency,” she said.
“In this project, we really did not have
the technical expertise for the job, but
we needed work. From the beginning,
the atmosphere was less than coopera-
tive, and the client was only partially
satisfied with the end result. What I
learned was to not over-promise and to
be careful not to take on an assignment
that is really over my head.”
