Theodore D. Klastorin University of Washington, USA

Ted Klastorin is the Burlington Resources/Burlington Northern Professor in the ISOM
Department at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle,
Washington, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial
Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. He has worked in
the project management area for more than 40 years; he was part of the team that initially developed
MS Project for Microsoft and has worked with many profit and nonprofit organizations
on project management–related issues. Professor Klastorin has published widely in the project
management area; his current research focuses on the design of optimal contracts in decentralized
projects and new systems for evaluating and monitoring ongoing projects. He holds a
BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.