Bill Denning is the manager of the Transportation Economics Office of the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). Bill has a long and varied career in transportation and trade. Bill joined MTO in 2009 after working for the Ontario Ministry of Finance from 2003. Prior to returning to Toronto, Bill worked as the Knowledge Management Coordinator for the transport sector and as a transport economist for the South Asia and Eastern Europe sections of the World Bank in Washington DC, doing transport and urban policy and project appraisal in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Poland, Latvia, Bosnia, and Albania.

He was employed as the Head of Market Research and Planning at GO Transit during the mid-1990’s, managing market and economic evaluations including demand and revenue forecasting and supervising an extensive market research and survey program. He worked as a transport economist for Canadian Pacific Consulting Services in Montreal with assignments in Congo, Brazil, and south-east Asia. Bill worked as a Canadian Trade Commissioner in Ottawa and Kuala Lumpur. His first position after of school was with Ernst & Young Toronto in their Marketing & Economics group.

He has a double specialist BA degree in Geography and in Economics from the University of Toronto and an MA in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill was a member of the second Canadian LEAD cohort (Cohort 4, 1995-97) and has kept in touch with Canadian and international LEAD fellows over the years. He lives in New Toronto, a town that has has been absorbed into the City of Toronto. He is an avid cyclist and greatly enjoys the placedness of Toronto.