HAZEM GHONIMA B.Sc., M.A., FCILT
President & CEO
TAF Consultants®
President of TAF Consultants of Ottawa, Canada since 1989. His company provides professional services in freight transportation particularly in Traffic Analysis and Forecasting of modal freight movements through the Canadian and U.S. transportation systems. TAF Consultants managed and implemented several major freight transportation projects on behalf of public and private organizations in Canada and the United States that dealt with the present and future competitiveness of the North American ports, modes and routes on the domestic and global levels. His company also designs and develops state-of-the arts data base information and forecasting systems COMFIS© and TAFIS that provide comprehensive information on commodity flows through the North American transportation systems .
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport North America
Mr. Ghonima is a Fellow and the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport North America (CILTNA) since July 2000. He joined the CILTNA in 1989 and became the chairman of its Ottawa Chapter in 1997. Mr. Ghonima is the founder of the Transportation Situation & Outlook Conference. He introduced this major event for the first time in the CILTNA in 1997, which he planned and chaired until 2008. He has been elected a Fellow member of the Institute in October 1999. Mr. Ghonima Chaired the CILTNA Review Committee and Transition team during the April-June, 2000 period that lifted the organization from its administrative and financial debacle.
St. Lawrence Seaway Authority
Mr. Ghonima joined the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority (SLSA) - presently the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) - in Ottawa, in 1973 as an economist and later as the Senior Economist and Head of its Economics Section From 1979 to 1989. He was responsible for managing and implementing its economics program, including: market research, impact and sensitivity analysis, transportation costs studies and traffic analysis and forecasting. Managed the implementation, on an ongoing basis, the Seaway Short, Medium and Long Range Traffic and Toll Revenues Forecasts and assessed periodically the impact of Seaway toll increases on the traffic.
During the fifteen years with the SLSA Mr. Ghonima was involved in all economic aspects of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System and particularly with the system's competitive position vis-à-vis alternative routes/modes on a regional and international levels. He participated in several Seaway toll revisions and financial structure reviews. He was the SLSA project manager for the comprehensive DRI-Acres's Commodity Flow Forecast study of 1982. Following the introduction of the microcomputer in 1981, Mr. Ghonima conceived and managed the development and implementation of the Seaway Economic Planning System (SEPS).
Energy, Mines & Resources
With the Canadian Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Mineral Economics Research Division, from 1971 to 1973 he undertook research works in mineral economics and forecasting including industrial organization, industrial complex analysis, corporate financial analysis, and capital expenditures analysis. He conceived and implemented a study which culminated with a report on the rationalization of the statistical system for several mineral commodities, "A Model of the Mineral Statistics System", published in March 1974.
Mr. Ghonima holds a B.Sc. degree and an M.A. degree in Regional Planning. He completed specialized programs in Forecasting Transportation Demand and Microcomputers in Transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mr. Ghonima authored and published several transportation related papers at the Canadian and U.S. Transportation Research Forums (CTRF & TRF).