Dr. Greg Baeker, Senior Consultant, AuthentiCity

Greg Baeker is a Senior Consultant with AuthentiCity and a nationally recognized leader in integrated cultural plans for cities. The company has led in the introduction of systematic cultural mapping approaches and frameworks in Ontario. The cultural mapping work implemented in Durham Region is being considered as a model for a provincial cultural mapping system. Recent work also includes work on local and regional creative economy strategies.

Prior to joining AuthentiCity, Greg served in senior leadership positions in Canada for 25 years as a policy maker, cultural planner and academic. Greg speaks frequently at academic and professional conferences and publishes regularly for journals such as Municipal World, the journal of Canadian municipalities. Municipal World will publish a book by Dr. Baeker on Municipal Cultural Planning in 2010.

Greg holds a master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Waterloo.