Winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, research and international professional contributions, Dr. Saeed Mirza is one of Canada's leading experts on the state of our public assets and a frequent media commentator on infrastructure issues. He has authored numerous articles and studies on Canada's infrastructure needs, including the study that established the widely accepted $60-billion estimate of the municipal infrastructure deficit.
Dr. Mirza is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Concrete Institute, and the Institute of Engineers Pakistan. He served as President of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) in 1985-86 and has been chair or co-chair of several committees of that organization. He was Founding Chair of the CSCE's Technical Committee on Rehabilitation of Infrastructure.
Dr. Mirza has been a member of McGill University's Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics since 1966, where his specialty is structural engineering and rehabilitation of infrastructure.