Putting people at the center of the Dieselgate monitorship was baked into Volkswagen’s vision for the project management office (PMO), also known as the central coordination/monitor liaison office. Dr. Thomas Meiers, Volkswagen’s chief coordinator, headed up the PMO through the duration of the monitorship.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...