43rd Annual W. A. Patterson Transportation

WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2025

7:30 P.M.

About

Ricaurte Vásquez Morales

Ricaurte Vásquez Morales was appointed Administrator of the Panama Canal Authority for a seven-year period starting September 2019.

Dr. Vásquez is a Panamanian economist with an extensive and successful professional career of 50 years in the government sector management.

Within the public administration he has held prominent positions such Administrator and President of the Board of Directors. In the private mining development with Rio Tinto Zinc in the development of the regional responsibilities and covering Gas-to-Power initiatives in Latin

SIGMA Management Advisors Corp. headquarters in Panama.

Distinguished Patterson Lectures

2024 Shelley Simpson J.B. Hunt Transport Services

2023 Doug Waggoner Echo Global Logistics

2022 Ed Bastian Delta Air Lines

2021 Ann Drake Lincoln Road Enterprises

2019 Lior Ron Uber Frieght

2018 Dennis Muilenburgg The Boeing Company

2017 Lance Fritz

2016 Jeff Silver Coyote, A UPS Company

2015 Doug Parker American Airlines

2014 Chris Lofgren Schneider

2013 Irwin M. Jacobs, Ph.D. Qualcomm

2012 Alan Mulally Ford Motor Company

2011 Jeff Smisek United Airlines

2010 Craig Philip, Ph.D. Ingram Barge Company

2009 Scott McCallum Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc.

2008 Matthew K. Rose

2007 Mark V. Rosenker National Transportation Safety Board

2006 Peter D. McDonald United Airlines

2005 Lawrence D. Burns General Motors Corporation

2004 Michael L. Eskew United Parcel Service, Inc.

2003 David Neeleman

2002 Norman Y. Mineta U.S. Dept. of Transportation

2001 Donald Schneider Schneider National, Inc.

2000 Frederick W. Smith FedEx Corporation

1999 Robert Krebs Burlington Northern Santa Fe

1998 Lua Cheng Eng Neptune Orient Lines, Ltd.

1997 Herb Kelleher

1996 John Welsby

1995 William “Gus” Pagonis Sears, Roebuck and Co.

1994 Karel Van Miert European Union

1993 Robert Herman, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

1992 J.B. Hunt J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.

1991 Heinz Ruhnau Lufthansa German Airlines

1990 Donald K. “Deke” Slayton Space Services Inc. of America

1989 Sir Colin Marshall

1988 William W. Winpisinger International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

1987 Frank Lorenzo Texas Air Corporation

1986 Robert L. Crandall AMR Corporation, American Airlines

1985 Marvin L. Manheim

1984 Daryl Wyckoff, Ph.D. Harvard University

1982 Alfred E. Kahn Cornell University

1980 Richard J. Ferris United Airlines, Inc.