The following is a career profile of Martin Crilly, appointed BC Ferry Commissioner effective August 2003, through June 2010.

Mr. Crilly holds an MA in Natural Sciences (1971) from the University of Cambridge, UK, and an MBA in transportation (1973) from the University of British Columbia .  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, having been a member from 1977.

He has operated his own management consulting practice since 1991, and has held the following positions through his career.

From 1995 to 1999 he served as Executive Director of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, a nonprofit, non-government charitable organization with projects in Canada, China, Poland, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Its mission was to promote sustainable urban development around the world through practical demonstration projects, using Canadian experience and technologies.  Mr. Crilly reported to a volunteer board of prominent Canadians.

In the period 1991-1993 Mr. Crilly was engaged jointly by the Province and Greater Vancouver as Project Director of Greater Vancouver's TRANSPORT 2021 project. He and a project team reporting to him produced a 30-year horizon strategic urban transport plan for the region which was formally adopted as a component of Greater Vancouver’s Livable Region Strategic Plan. Mr. Crilly reported to committee of provincial and local government senior officials.

From 1988 to 1991, he served as Vice President, Research and Development, Johnston Terminals Limited, a private transport company with trucking, freight forwarding, port and warehousing operations. Mr. Crilly planned a large waterfront industrial property for handling “mini bulk” shipments; he also improved logistics for road deliveries and truck scheduling to a multipurpose deep sea shipping terminal.

In the period 1978-1988 he served as Senior Professional, then President, of WESTAC, the Western Transportation Advisory Council. Mr. Crilly and a secretariat reporting to him organized the operation of this neutral labour-business-government tri-partite forum. He provided impartial factual information for fifty transportation carriers, users, labour unions and governments, reporting to a provincial cabinet minister (rotating among four western provinces), and organizing some 30 full conferences, seminars and issue workshops.

Between 1975 and 1977 Mr. Crilly was Senior Lecturer and Consultant at Institute of Finance Management and Transport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.   Contracted to the Commonwealth Technical Cooperation Fund, he taught finance, planning and logistics techniques to diploma students.

From 1973 to 1975 Mr. Crilly was a Business Analyst with Canadian Pacific Limited, Montreal, Quebec. He undertook transportation planning and logistics projects for CP Rail and other subsidiaries of the company.

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