Karlene Agard
Senior Consultant, Oxford Global Projects
Karlene Agard is an award-winning risk and value management practitioner who specializes in starting megaprojects for success. Karlene is an international speaker who has presented on risk, value, and project management, as well as resilience. Her audiences include national risk and project management conferences in the UK (Major Projects Association, Association for Project Management and Institute of Risk Management), Spain and Denmark, and she has guest lectured at the University of Greenwich and the University of Warwick. She teaches project management courses at the University of Oxford.
Karlene consults internationally, with sectoral experience including infrastructure, IT, and energy. She has written for Forbes, McKinsey and Deloitte, as well as risk, value and project management publications. Karlene was one of the youngest females to be appointed a Fellow of the Association for Project Management. She has completed a Masters in Major Programme Management at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School.
Karlene progressed quickly at Network Rail, working in operations, change project management and then in the major infrastructure projects division. This was where she developed her award-winning risk and value management process to start megaproject for success. She worked on projects such as Crossrail 2, Thameslink and the multi-billion-pound property portfolio. She then worked as a Risk Manager at Transport for London, supporting the busy Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines.
Karlene undertook a secondment on the International Trade Select Committee at the House of Commons (within the UK Parliament) before starting consulting. As a Senior Expert, Karlene uses her expertise in risk and value management to direct projects to success from the start.