Past Patterson Lecturers

Year Speaker Title and Links
2008 Matthew K. Rose
President & CEO, BNSF Railway
America's Transportation Challenge
2007 Mark Rosenker
Chairman
National Transportation Safety Board
On the Road to Safety: Milestones of Progress
2006 Peter McDonald
Executive Vice President & COO
United Airlines
25th Anniversary Patterson Transportation Lecture
2005 Lawrence D. Burns
Vice President
GM Research & Development and Planning
General Motors Corporation
Reinventing the Automobile
2004 Michael L. Eskew
Chairman and CEO
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Innovation in an Age of Globalization
2003 David Neeleman
Chief Executive Officer and Director
JetBlue Airways
The Jet Blue Story
2002 Norman Y. Mineta
Secretary
U.S. Department of Transportation
National Transportation Security System
2001
Donald Schneider
President
Schneider National, Inc.
"Enhancing Logistics Productivity"
2000 Frederick W. Smith
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
FedEx Corporation
"Expressing the Future"
1999 Robert Krebs
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
"You Can't Haul Freight on the Internet : Railroads in the 21st Century"
1998 Lua Cheng Eng
Deputy Chairman, Group President and Executive Chief Officer of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.
"Container Shipping in the Globalized Economy"
1997 Herb Kelleher
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
Southwest Airline Co.
"Leadership--Southwest Style"
1996 John Welsby
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
British Railways
"Europe's Railways: At the Crossroads"
1995 William ("Gus") Pagonis
Senior Vice President, Logistics,
Sears Merchandise Group
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
"Use of Military Logistics Concepts and Principles in the Civilian Sector"
1994 Karel Van Miert
Commissioner of Competition for the European Union
"European Competition Policy in the Transportation Sector"
1993 Dr. Robert Herman, L.P.
Gilvin Centennial Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering
"Traffic Science, Congestion and the Urban Environment"
1992 J.B. Hunt
Chairman of the Board
J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
"Intermodalism: The Future Challenge"
1991 Heinz Ruhnau
Chairman of the Executive Board
Lufthansa German Airlines
"Challenges in Air Transportation Deregulation: A European Perspective"
1990 Donald (Deke) K. Slayton
Former Astronaut
President and Vice Chairman
Space Services Inc. of America
"Space Transportation and Commercialization"
1989 Sir Colin Marshall
Chief Executive Officer
British Airways
"The Airlines: Globalization and Post-1992 Europe"
1988 William W. Winpisinger
International President
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
"Planes, Trains and Trucks in an Era of Deregulation"
1987 Frank Lorenzo
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Texas Air Corporation
"The Consumer and Deregulation"
1986 Robert L. Crandall
Chairman and President
AMR Corporation and American Airlines, Inc.
"The Airline Industry: Still in Transition"
1985 Marvin L. Manheim
William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor of Transportation
Northwestern University
"Information Technology and Organization Change: Strategies for Managers"
1984 Dr. Daryl Wyckoff
James J. Hill Professor of Transportation
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
"Transportation Quality: User Friendly?"
1982 Alfred E. Kahn
Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Economics
Cornell University
Special Consultant to National Economic Research Associates
"The Airline Industry: Is it Time to Reregulate?"
1980 Richard J. Ferris
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
United Airlines, Inc.
"The Future of Air Transportation"