The American Academy of Project Management is a the global graduate Board of Standards for project management industry professionals.

The AAPM ®  was founded in 1996, via a consolidation between the CEC/PME Project Manager E-Business Committee (PME) and the Founders Advisory Committee of the Original Chartered Condor Falcon Graduate Institute of Leadership Development ™.

AAPM ™ now has representative offices in the USA Colorado, New York, Silicon Valley, Beijing, Singapore , India, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Athens, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Kuwait, Latin America and South America, , The Caribbean, Europe, and more. AAPM ®  mandates consent to high standards of professional conduct, and AAPM activities are International in nature and scope. The AAPM ®  Graduate Board currently recognizes over 12,000 Executive Project Managers, PhDs, Masters Degree Holders, government officials, and consultants as executive members in over 141 nations.