Stanley A. Kongnetiman is Chief Economist and Managing Partner of Veridian Advisory Partners, and brings more than two decades of applied economic practice spanning municipal government, energy, railway industry, and global commodity markets. He built his career at The City of Calgary, where he served as City Economist and Manager of Corporate Economics before going on to lead economic modelling and forecasting. He constructed the City’s first regression models for market-value assessment, developed the Calgary Impact Assessment Model, and studied system dynamics at MIT with the support of John Sterman, the late Andrew Ford, and Bob Eberlein, later co-developing the model’s second generation with Professor Nathaniel Osgood. He also led franchise fee negotiations on behalf of Corporate Economics and Regulatory Affairs with ATCO Gas and ENMAX and convened the first Municipal Fiscal Gap Workshop with counterparts from Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, and Winnipeg.
His industry record is equally substantial. As Economics Associate Director at S&P Global he delivered market intelligence across crude oil, natural gas, electricity, and commodity markets; at Canadian Pacific Railway, now CPKC, he deepened his expertise in logistics, transportation economics, and regulatory costing; and at Husky Energy, now Cenovus Energy, he supported a team of senior supply chain and market intelligence advisors, designed the company’s first procurement risk assurance strategy, and built should-cost models supporting sourcing initiatives across the corporation. He teaches supply chain management at SAIT and has taught Analytics of the International Business Environment in the MBA program at the Haskayne School of Business. At Veridian he leads the firm’s flagship engagements, including Economic Trends and Forecasts, the core outlook product underpinning financial, land-use, and infrastructure planning.