Alain Paul Martin

Alain Paul Martin is the author of books on strategic intelligence  and proactive thinking. He has advised the Director General of UNESCO on priority setting, principle-based leadership and strategic issues. He has served as Executive Member of the non-partisan Committee of the Prime Minister of Canada on Federal Government Reform and the Public Service Advisory Committee.



Dr. Brian Morrissey and Alain Martin authored the first report recommending the creation of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. They also studied the policy lessons learned in the United Kingdom about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the nineties. Alain P. Martin is the Chief Architect of Harvard University Global System – a practical framework comprising management tools and road maps to reduce complexity in human intelligence, issue analysis, strategy, risk and project management  and strategic procurement. He has been recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for “his outstanding contribution to the state-of-the-art of project management”. His work on proactive thinking and project management is quoted in textbooks,  defense publications  dissertations and refereed journals. His current research focus is on strategic and operational policies and on understanding the incubation cycles of new paradigms related to innovations in economics, science, law and major government policies. Alain P. Martin is President and Management Faculty Chair of The Professional Development Institute (PDI). He was a member of the Graduate Management Faculty of the Université du Québec where he taught strategic thinking, principle-based negotiation skills and management of change in the M.Sc. Project Management and Master Degree of Project Management (MGP) in both English and French (1997–1999, 2006–2008). He is a 2012 Fellow in Advanced Leadership at Harvard University and the Past-President of both Harvard University Club of Ottawa and Harvard Business School Club, Canada's Capital Region (2004-2011). He has been listed in the Canadian Who's Who since 1999.

Alain Martin is also an inventor. He held U.S., Canadian and Japanese patents related to his time-management instrument's innovation. He also created Harvard International Planner – a registered trademark of Harvard University.