Richard Jonathan Nyles Lande

Richard Lande has been actively involved in Canadian transportation for the past fifty years. He is a member of both the Quebec and Ontario Law Societies. He lived in Montreal until 1987 where he worked for Canadian Pacific Railway, as well as being a tenured associate professor at Concordia University. He then moved his law practice to Toronto and served as the president of the Importers Transport Council, a consortium of manufacturers of automobiles from Japan and Europe.

Richard was the founding chairman of the Canadian division of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation. He and his wife Pearl have organized an annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Cost Savings for over 35 years.

Richard was appointed the Honorary Consul General for the Comoros Islands to Canada in 2009. He has made over 100 presentations on Canadian transport law to audiences in North America and in Malaysia and Hong Kong. He has been a Research Fellow at the Bureau of Transport Economics in Australia and was a Transportation Fellow in Residence at Oxford University. In 2023 and 2024, Richard represented Canada at the United Nations at the Commission for International Trade Law in Vienna and New York City.

Richard and his wife Pearl live on a farm in Burlington, Ontario. They have four children and a granddaughter.