 Dr.
Pierre Coutu is an experienced aviation consultant specializing
in airport strategic management and development issues.
After working for a few years with the City of Chicago's
Department of Airports (O'Hare and Midway airports),
he joined Transport Canada in 1974, where he went on
to hold a number of progressively more senior management
positions over a 13-year period, including Airport Manager
of Sept-Iles Airport, General Manager of a major airport
development project team in St. John's, Newfoundland,
and Chief, Airport Systems and Services in the Ottawa
headquarters, with the functional responsibility for
passenger and freight terminal operations throughout
Canada. This involved the development and implementation
of national policies, standards, guidelines, regulations
and programs for the provision of all airport systems
and services pertaining to passenger and cargo processing.
Ultimately, he became Director, National Airport Issues
Management. While in Ottawa, he also served as a member
of the special government Airports Transfer Task Force
that was created to oversee the transfer of government
airports to the private and public sector.
In 1987 Dr. Coutu left the federal government to help
start the then newly created International Aviation
Management Training Institute (IAMTI). With IAMTI, he
held a number of successively more senior positions
starting out as Director of Airports and Civil Aviation
Management Programs, and ultimately holding the position
of Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer.
In his years with the Institute, Dr. Coutu initiated
and managed a wide range of airport and airline related
technical assistance projects in Bulgaria, Canada, Mexico,
Morocco, Peru, Russia and Trinidad and Tobago. He also
lectured frequently on a variety of IAMTI's aviation
management courses on subjects including: strategic
management, airport business planning, airport development
and airport management.
In early 1998, Dr. Coutu founded Aviation Strategies
International (ASI), an independent consulting company
whose mission is to assist aviation organizations worldwide
with their strategic consulting and advisory needs.
With ASI, he has worked on several projects such as
a study on ground-handling liberalization in Morocco
on behalf of the World Bank, as well as a review of
the Airports Council International’s training
services policy which led to the creation of ACI’s
Global Training Hub. He has also initiated and implemented
a strategic partnership between Munich International
Airport and the Qingdao Liuting International Airport
(China), and developed specialized training programs
for the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
Dr. Coutu has been a guest speaker at a number of international
industry events over the years, hosted by various organizations
including: the airport authorities of Brazil (INFRAERO),
Morocco (ONDA), and Poland (PPL), as well as the Airports
Council International (ACI), the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO), the World Bank, the American
Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), Moscow's C.I.S.
Airports Association, the International Airports Authority
of India (IAAI), the Civil Aviation Management Institute
(CAMI) of CAAC in Beijing, and Russia's Samara International
Airport (SIA).
Dr. Coutu also teaches within the International Aviation
MBA programs at Concordia University, in Montreal, at
the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(BUAA) and at Krems University in Austria. He currently
manages the ICAO-Concordia AVSEC Management Certification
Program and the ACI-Concordia Airport Executive Leadership
Program. He has been an active member of the American
Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) since 1972,
and in 1980, he became the first non-American to become
an Accredited Airport Executive (A.A.E.). In 1996, the
Minister of Transport of Poland awarded Dr. Coutu a
Medal of Achievement in recognition of his special contribution
to the development of the Polish air transportation
sector. In 2005, Dr. Coutu became a board member of
the International Foundation for Aviation and Development
(IFFAAD) and was appointed to the Transportation Appeal
Tribunal of Canada (TATC) by the Minister of Transport
of Canada.
Dr. Coutu holds a bachelor of Industrial Relations
from the University of Montreal. He completed specialized
graduate-level studies in air transportation at Northwestern
University in Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT-Boston) as well as a doctorate degree
in education (virtual work teams and distance education)
at Nova Southeastern University (Miami).
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