Jennifer Keesmaat

Former Chief Planner & Executive Director of the City of Toronto

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Jennifer Keesmaat Biography

Jennifer Keesmat is a Canadian urban planner who served as Chief City Planner of Toronto from 2012 to 2017. On August 28, 2017, she announced that she would resign from her position as Chief Planner, effective September 29 of the same year, and subsequently accepted a teaching position at the University of Toronto. In March 2018, Keesmaat became the CEO of the Creative Housing Society, an independent non-profit group dedicated to creation of affordable housing projects. She was named the ninth most influential person in Toronto by Toronto Life in 2014, and the 41st most important person in Canada by Maclean's in 2013.

On July 27, 2018, Keesmaat announced her candidacy for mayor of Toronto in the 2018 mayoral election. She placed a distant second to incumbent mayor John Tory, and failed to win any of the city’s 25 wards.

After the mayoral election, Keesmaat founded and became CEO of The Keesmaat Group, a company that works with corporate and political leaders to advance change in cities around the world. In 2019, The Keesmaat Group founded the National Housing Innovation event series in partnership with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and The Globe and Mail, focused on improving access to affordable housing in Canada.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/05/2024.

Jennifer Keesmaat Videos

  • In conversation with Jennifer Keesmaat
    Jennifer Keesmaat, CEO of the Keesmaat Group, former Chief City Planner for the City of Toronto, sat down through Zoom with former AoU chair Kevin...
  • Jennifer Keesmaat: We need to go deeper into our urbanism
    Jennifer Keesmaat, Former Chief City Planner of Toronto, spoke about the need to recognize that our current urban form has had detrimental effects on...
  • Jennifer Keesmaat, Chief Planner, City of Toronto

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