Board Members, Canadian Museum of Making.

Ian MacGregor has thirty years of experience in developing and managing energy-related businesses, primarily with operations in Alberta. He is a partner with North West Capital Inc., a firm which is engaged in restructuring and rehabilitation of under performing business. North West is also a major shareholder of Enhance Energy, a company involved in the secondary recovery business, and North West Upgrading, who is building a $6 billion heavy oil upgrader near Edmonton Alberta. Prior to his current position he had senior management responsibilities with White Pass Capital Inc. and the Solex group of companies.

Ian is married with two children. He is an alternate member for the Development Appeal Board in the Municipal District of Big Horn and a member of the Board of Directors for Enmax Energy the LDC for the City of Calgary.

Dr. Wirasinghe obtained his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1968. Subsequently he won a full US Fulbright Scholarship to study transportation engineering at the University of California at Berkeley where he completed his M.S. in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1976.

Dr. Wirasinghe became the founding Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1988 and was one of the originators of the successful Research Chairs and Professorships Program with over 25 currently in place. He became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1994. He chairs the Faculty Promotions and Tenure Committees. He chaired the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1999/2000. He is the senior Dean at U of C, and is the senior Dean of Engineering in Canada.

Dr. Wirasinghe’s research interests are in the area of transportation planning and engineering. He has written well over 135 papers and has over 100 citations of his work. He recently received recognition from NSERC for holding a Discovery Grant continuously for over 25 years. He is also the grant holder for the NSERC Canadian Design Engineering Network (C-DEN). He is a life member of the International Advisory Committee of the triennial International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, the most prestigious symposium in the field. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Transportation, an international journal in its 38th year of publication.

Chan Wirasinghe is married to Dhamitha Wirasinghe, has three adult daughters, and two grand children. He is an amateur Mozart historian, a collector of books on Sri Lanka, and reads for relaxation.