Leadership & governance.
We are assembling our founding leadership, examiner panel and subject-matter experts. In keeping with our transparency commitments, we will publish names only once individuals are confirmed and have consented — not before.
How certification is governed
Responsible Officer
Accountable for the Institute’s operations, integrity and adherence to its own policies.
Chief Examiner / Assessment Lead
Owns examination validity, the blueprint and the standard-setting that fixes the pass mark.
Certification & Impartiality Committee
Independent-majority body that safeguards impartial certification decisions and manages threats to impartiality.
Standards Committee
Owns the competency standard and the Body of Knowledge, and oversees its validation.
Appeals Panel
Provides independent review of certification and examination decisions under the Appeals Policy.
Subject-Matter Experts
Practising experts who author and peer-review the standard and the examination items.
Why this structure matters
Independence
An independent-majority committee is required so certification decisions are not driven by commercial interest.
Conflict management
Threats to impartiality are identified and managed under our Conflict-of-Interest and Impartiality policies.
Due process
Candidates can challenge decisions through an independent appeals process.
Join the founding panel
We are inviting recognised project-controls practitioners and assessment specialists to help establish the standard, author items, and serve on our committees. If that is you, we would like to talk.
Governance before personalities
PCI separates standard-setting (what competent looks like), assessment (whether a candidate has demonstrated it) and commercial operation (running the institute). No individual sits on both sides of a candidate’s outcome, and appeals are heard by people who took no part in the original decision — the impartiality principle at the centre of ISO/IEC 17024, to which our framework is written in reference.
Roles listed as open are exactly that. We publish vacancies rather than borrowed biographies, and we name people only with their consent once appointments are made. If you have the standing to hold one of these seats — in certification governance, psychometrics, ethics or public-interest oversight — introduce yourself.
How an appointment is made
Publishing vacancies instead of borrowed biographies means the appointment process has to carry the weight. Every seat is filled the same way.
1. Open role
The role, its remit and the standing it requires are published — the same descriptions you can read on this page.
2. Assessment
Candidates are assessed on demonstrated competence and professional standing in the relevant field: controls practice, assessment science, governance or ethics.
3. Conflict screening
Interests are declared and screened under the conflict-of-interest policy before appointment — not discovered afterwards.
4. Consent and publication
Names appear here only once the individual has accepted the role and consented to publication.
5. Term and review
Appointments carry defined terms and responsibilities under the committee terms of reference — seats are held on merit, not indefinitely.
What committee service actually involves
Committee service is working membership, not a letterhead credit. Members prepare for and attend scheduled meetings, review evidence and papers, and put their names to decisions. They accept confidentiality obligations, declare interests afresh at each decision — recusal is normal, not exceptional — and serve the standard rather than any employer, training provider or constituency. For the independent-majority bodies, that independence is structural: the committee exists precisely so that no commercial interest can reach a certification outcome.
Governance while seats are being filled
A founding stage raises an obvious question: what stops decisions being made before the structure is complete? The answer is sequencing. The policies on this site bind the institute now, and certification decisions will be made only by properly constituted, conflict-free committees — PCI will not shortcut its own governance framework to move faster. That is why no one has yet been certified: enrolment, consultation and standard development proceed, while assessment waits for the structure that makes its outcomes trustworthy. It is slower. It is also the point.
Keep going
How we report on ourselves
Governance that cannot be inspected is decoration. As bodies convene, their remits, memberships and meeting cadence are published here; annual reporting summarises decisions of consequence, appeals statistics and audit themes — the numbers a serious certification body owes its public.
Until each seat is filled, this page shows the honest state: structure first, names as they are earned. That ordering is deliberate — institutions outlive individuals only when the architecture comes first.