Paul Evans (Ph.D Dalhousie)

Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Topic- The Rise of the Asian Economies; its Significance for Canadian Business and Communities

Paul Evans is on secondment from the University of British Columbia where he is a Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies co-appointed to the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Institute of Asian Research.

Dr. Evans' previous teaching and administrative appointments include: Assistant, Associate and Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, 1981-97; Director, University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1991-96; Visiting Professor, Asia Center, Harvard University, 1997-99; and Acting Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 2004-05. His visiting fellowships were held at the Australian National University (1988); National Chengchi University (1989); Chulalongkorn University (1989); the East-West Center (1995); and the National Institute for Research Advancement in Tokyo (1999).

His principal books are: John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China (1988); a co-edited volume, Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People's Republic of China , 1949-1970 (1991); and an edited volume, Studying Asia Pacific Security (1994); Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia (1997); and (with David Capie) The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon (2002). Some of his recent essays include "Human Security in East Asia: In the Beginning," Journal of East Asian Studies , June 2004; "Between Regionalism and Regionalization: Policy Networks and the Nascent East Asian Institutional Identity," in T.J. Pempel, ed., Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell University Press 2005); and "Canada and Global China: Engagement Recalibrated," in Andrew Cooper and Dane Rowlands, eds., Canada Among Nations 2005 (McGill-Queens University Press 2005).

Dr. Evans has served as Co-Chair of the Canadian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific from its founding in 1993 until July 1997 and, from 1994 until June 1998, co-chair of CSCAP's North Pacific Working Group. He was the founding director of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security in 2001-02. A member of the International Council of the Asia Society in New York and the international advisors to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, he also sits on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review , Pacific Affairs , and The Chinese Journal of International Politics. Download Paul Evan's presentation here.

David Fung

Chairman and CEO, ACDEG International

Topic- Export opportunities created by the new container port
Dr. David T. Fung has investment partnerships in North America, Europe and Asia through strategic alliances in forest products, biomass energy, chemicals, electrical power cogeneration, OEM parts manufacturing and packaging wastes recycling. He obtained his Bachelor, Master and Doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from McGill University in Montreal and completed the senior business executive program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Dr. Fung is actively involved on the Boards and/or Advisory Boards of educational institutions, professional associations and trade associations, including Vice- President of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, Chair of the Manufacturing 20/20 Implementation Steering Group and First Vice Chair of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. He is also a member of the national board of directors and executive committee of the Canada China Business Council. Download David Fung's Presentation here.

Doug Hayden-Luck

Sales Director - International Intermodal, CN Rail

Topic- Export opportunities created by the new container port

Mr Hayden-Luck has been with CN for 17 years, where he is currently the Sales Director for CN's International Intermodal group. His responsibilities have spanned from the Petroleum and Chemicals group, Coal, Fertilizers, Domestic Intermodal and now International Intermodal.
Prior to joining CN, Mr. Hayden-Luck played professional hockey player in Germany. He holds a BSC - Geology from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and an MBA from Dalhousie University in Halifax.   Mr. Hayden-Luck resides in Calgary with his wife Nancy and two children Alex, age 10 and Marlo, age 9.
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Don Krusel

President and Chief Executive Officer, Prince Rupert Port Authority

Topic- Transformation Infrastructure: how containerization is making a difference to the economy of the North

Mr. Krusel was appointed to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer in February of 1992.   He began his career with the Port Authority as Manager of Finance and Administration in 1987.

Mr. Krusel holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario and is a Certified Management Accountant.   Before joining the Prince Rupert Port Authority, he held positions within the financial planning and analysis function of a major financial institution in Vancouver.   He is a past Director of the British Columbia Trade Development Corporation in Vancouver, the Western Transportation Advisory Council, the former Chairman of the Canadian Delegation of Ports for the American Association of Port Authorities and served as Chairman and Director of the Association of Canadian Port Authorities from 1999 - 2001.   In 1996 he was appointed by the then Federal Minister of Transport, the Honourable David Anderson, to Chair a Task Force to study the Northwest Transportation Corridor and is currently a Director of the Northwest Corridor Development Corporation which was formed as a result of the Task Force recommendations.

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Ruth Sol

President & Treasurer, Western Transportation Advisory Council (Westac)

WESTAC is a member-based council of senior decision makers in all facets of the transportation supply chain – carriers, ports and terminals, shippers, labour, and the three levels of government. Ruth joined the Council in 1983 as Research Economist and held increasingly senior positions, and was appointed President in 2003. Previously she held positions in market research and statistical analysis at HA Simons International, a consulting engineering firm in the pulp and paper industry, and MacMillan Bloedel Limited, an integrated forest products firm merged into Weyerhaeuser Canada.

Ruth communicates the needs of the commercial transportation industry and its stakeholders, in her role of spokesman and lead facilitator. Under her leadership, this powerful forum of industry leaders meets to debate, discuss and better understand issues affecting transportation. As a catalyst for supply chain excellence, the Council ensures the industry's voice is heard and that the importance of transportation to our economic and social well-being is widely understood and appreciated.

George Stalk Jr.
Senior Vice President and Director, The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

Topic- "Why Prince Rupert Matters"

George Stalk’s practice is focused on creating unassailable competitive advantage. He has consulted to a variety of leading manufacturing, technology and consumer products companies throughout North and South America, Europe and throughout Asia. Along the way, George worked and lived in Japan for over a decade where he first revealed the sources of Japanese competitive advantage in cost, quality, but most importantly time, leading to BCG's breakthrough thinking on the use of time as a competitive weapon. To demonstrate the reproducibility of the Japanese strategy, George ran a client's factory in North America where costs were reduced and quality improved significantly while throughput times were cut by a factor of ten. At BCG, these efforts led to the creation of a practice called Time Based Competition and re-engineering for speed as well as costs.
George continued to stimulate the strategic thinking of clients by shifting their focus onto breaking the compromises their industries impose on their customers to create new businesses with new sources of advantage. From 1998 to 2003, George led BCG’s worldwide innovation efforts funding and managing thrusts into almost all aspects of ecommerce strategy, pricing innovation and identifying and exploiting strategic discontinuities. His work yielded insights into managing channel conflict, complexity, using broadband wireless to create competitive advantage, organizing for ecommerce and ‘power-by-the hour’ and organizing for pricing. Today, he works with clients to integrate emerging Chinese threats and opportunities into their competitive strategies. George is currently with BCG’s Toronto office. He started with BCG in Boston in 1978 and has been with the firm’s Tokyo and Chicago offices as well. George holds a BS in engineering mechanics from the University of Michigan, an MS in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
George lives with his wife and six kids on a farm outside of Toronto and is the author of several books, including The China Rip Tide: Threat or Opportunity?

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Mike Tretheway

Executive Vice President, InterVISTAS Consulting Inc.

Topic- The Container Market Opportunities Project

The InterVISTAS Consulting Group is an employee owned consulting practice  headquartered in Vancouver with offices in Washington D.C.,  London, Chicago, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Montreal  and San Juan, Puerto Rico. InterVISTAS specializes in the transportation and tourism industries, and has grown to a practice of over  65 team members.

Dr. Tretheway earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and served for 14 years as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, where he continues as an Adjunct Professor. He has served as an advisor to governments, industry and consumer groups in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa , and the European Union. He has taught in Canada, France, Brazil, China and Malaysia .

Before co-founding InterVISTAS Consulting in 1997, Dr. Tretheway served as Special Advisor to the President & CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Authority, and was responsible for the marketing of the airport .

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Frans van Riemsdyk

Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing - Maher Terminals

Topic- Prince Rupert's Strategic Location: the Port Operator's Perspective

Mr. van Riemsdyk joined Maher Terminals in 1981 and has held a variety of positions in Operations, Planning, and Marketing.  His responsibilities have included Superintendent, Assistant Terminal Manager, Assistant to the President, and Vice President Sales and Marketing.  In 2001 he was named Sr. Vice President Sales and Marketing. Mr. van Riemsdyk graduated with a BS in Business Administration from Susquehanna University in 1981 and more recently is a 2002 graduate of the Penn State Executive Management Program.

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