Biography of E. Hunter Harrison
President and Chief Executive Officer
CN Railway

E. Hunter Harrison became President and Chief Executive Officer of CN on January 1, 2003. Before assuming that position, he served as CN's Exec. Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer the previous five years. He was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors on December 6, 1999. Prior to joining CN, Mr. Harrison was President and CEO of the Illinois Central Corporation (IC) and the Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICRR) and a director of both companies.

Mr. Harrison's railroad career began in 1963 when he joined the Frisco (St. Louis-San Francisco) Railroad as carman-oiler in Memphis while still attending school. He advanced through positions of increasing responsibility in operations, first with the Frisco, then with Burlington Northern (BN) after BN acquired the Frisco in 1980. Before moving to IC and ICRR in 1989, he served as BN's Vice-President - Transportation and Vice-President - Service Design. With IC and ICRR, Mr. Harrison first held the position of VP and COO, becoming Sr. VP - Transportation in 1991, Sr. VP - Operations in 1992, and Pres. and CEO the following year. During his career with Illinois Central, he initiated scheduled service for freight shipments, maintaining a sharp focus on operational efficiency and asset utilization. By 1996, he succeeded making the railroad the most efficient in North America.

As CN's EVP and COO, he applied the same philosophy and methods, implementing an aggressive operating plan and refining the railroad's scheduled service to produce industry-leading operating and on-time performance results. Harrison manages the company based on five guiding principles: Service, Cost Control, Asset Utilization, Safety and People. In 2005, he authored the book, How We Work and Why, which chronicles how CN railroaders think and operate and speaks to the real life stories of the people who have made it all possible.

Mr. Harrison is a member of the North American Competitiveness Council, a member of Canadian Council of Chief Executives and was named North America's Railroader of the Year by Railway Age magazine in 2002. In 2006, Mr. Harrison received the B'nai Brith Canada Award of Merit.