Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association for Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM, leading it to chartered status. He is now a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Guild of Educators. He is also a Cabinet Office advisor. He advises and guides many organisations and delivers training to several government departments.

 

He has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills, now called the Project Skills Alliance. Read more here. He is a member of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee, responsible for national standards in project programme and portfolio management, and he was its Chair from 2022-24.

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He led the development of BS202001 Project Controls, in which MOD is a participant and works closely with the PsACE community, harmonising estimating practices in government and its supply chain. He also represents BSi on ISO WG12, developing guides for EVM. 

 

He will be the founding Chair of the newly named Controls and Skills Authority, formerly ACOSTE.

 

He continues to curate the long-running and highly regarded EVA conference. Founded in 1996.

 

He adores music and silence in almost equal measure.