MKI assembles and leads professional resources from a select international network of experienced and successful planning, engineering, economics, program evaluation, and project finance consulting firms/practices, with a focus on public and private infrastructure critical to metropolitan and regional growth, adaptation, renewal and development.
MKI's founding principle is to create a company that brings together a carefully selected group of consultants who are already leaders in their field. Our experience working in over fifteen countries and more than one hundred cities brings an unparalleled depth to the practice. Our disciplines are planning, engineering, program evaluation, public policy, risk management, economics, and demographics; our unique offer is intellectual leadership.
Metropolitan Knowledge International is:
Jeffrey Seider, M.B.A., B.Sc. (Q.S.), PQS, is a Principal and Managing Director in the Toronto office of MKI, specializing in strategic business case analysis, real estate/infrastructure development and financing, alternative service delivery, privatization, and managing the interface between government and business sectors. Jeff has more than twenty years experience in major project planning in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, and South Africa. He is a professional member of the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, and the Council of South African Quantity Surveyors. Before joining MKI, Jeff was a Principal in KPMG's Policy, Economical and Financial Analysis group in Toronto.
Robert Lehman, MES, BA,
MCIP, RPP, is a Founder and Director of MKI and
Managing Partner of Meridian Planning Consultants. During
Bob's thirty years experience as a professional planner,
he has worked for over fifty Ontario municipalities, and
developed land use planning policies for communities containing
more than one-quarter of Canada's population. He has appeared
at more than 150 hearings of the Ontario Municipal Board
as an expert witness and received seven awards for professional
excellence as an urban planner.
Ian Williams, P.Eng, is a Director of MKI as well as the Chairman and CEO of McCormick Rankin Corporation. Ian has over thirty years of professional engineering experience with his specialty field of practice in transportation engineering. Ian has been responsible for numerous transportation and infrastructure planning initiatives and policy directives across Canada. He is the Chair of Consulting Engineers of Ontario in 2006-07.
Jeff Lehman, M.Sc, B.A., is a Principal with MKI and has almost ten years of experience in urban planning, policy development, and major project planning in Canada and the UK. Before joining MKI, Jeff was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, teaching in a Master's program designed to link economic, transportation, and social issues to land use policy, architecture, and urban design. As a policy consultant he has worked for a variety of clients in the public and private sectors, including work for the UK Government's Urban Task Force.
Alka Johri, M.Sc, B.A., is a Consultant with MKI and brings depth of experience in transportation economics, land use, and project planning to her work. Her project work with MKI includes land use planning, cost-benefit analysis, and financial modelling of development scenarios. A transport economist by background, Alka worked as a transportation consultant in India before joining MKI, completing a variety of sectoral analysis and economic impact work as part of the planning process for new transportation facilities. Alka holds a Master's degree in Town Planning from the Institute of Town Planners (India) and a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, India.
Annie Luk, M.B.A., M.I.S., B.A. (Hon), is a Principal with MKI with ten years of experience in consulting. Annie specializes in program evaluation, economic development strategies, and infrastructure finance (particularly public-private partnerships). She has worked with clients of all levels of government in Canada and the U.S. as well as private sector companies. Prior to joining MKI in April 2006, Annie was an Associate Director of the Public Infrastructure and Finance group at KPMG LLP. Annie is a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society and the American Evaluation Association.
