Welcome to City Nation Place! We’re the global platform, community, and resource hub for those working in place branding and place marketing – it’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance!
Our Mission
City Nation Place's mission is to help cities, regions and nations grow their place economies and improve the quality of life for their communities.
- EDUCATE: We share knowledge between place brand practitioners around the world, surfacing new thinking and best practice to inform and inspire.
- CONNECT: We provide a platform that supports place leaders in growing their professional networks, facilitating better knowledge exchange across the place branding industry
- INSPIRE: We recognise and amplify the best and brightest strategies and initiatives from around the word
By helping places build an authentic and engaging story about their place – grounded in their history and articulating their future ambitions – we help to build stronger place economies and more vibrant communities.
Learn how we help place teams build stronger strategies, skills, and connections.
Our Story
City Nation Place began out of a simple yet powerful idea: that places could build a stronger, more resilient, future for themselves if they joined up the dots between what’s good for their citizens or community, with what is attractive for visitors, talent, and investors.
The first City Nation Place conference took place in London in 2015, with an audience of 150 visionary place practitioners who believed in the transformative potential of a place brand strategy. Since then, we’ve held events in all four corners of the world, with regional events for North America, Australasia, the UK and more. The City Nation Place Awards have become the definitive recognition of excellence for cities, regions, and nations. And we’ve grown our community to reach thousands of place practitioners.
Through it all, we have remained committed to the people and stories behind great places, as recognised by the City Nation Place Champions who have stepped up to pledge their support in helping us develop new initiatives and research for the benefit of the wider place brand industry.
Wherever you are on your place brand journey, we’re ready with the resources, connections, and insight you need to take your place vision to the next level.
Meet The Team
Behind every successful place brand is a standout team – and so it is with City Nation Place. We’re a team of passionate professionals who specialise in leading events and creating content for the place industry. Say hello to any of us below – we’d love to chat!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about how we can support you, please get in touch with us at info@citynationplace.com
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Clare is the Founder and Director of City Nation Place, the global forum for the people and stories behind places.
City Nation Place creates connections and shares best practice between country brands, regional brands, and city brands around the world through articles, interviews, surveys, white papers, the advisory group network, and conferences.
Clare’s interest in the complex area of place branding was sparked whilst working on a series of Nation Branding Masterclass events, led by Simon Anholt, one of the first thought-leaders to speak about and promote the concept of place branding. Having listened to Simon address audiences in Accra, Delhi, Dubai, London and Singapore on how policy, governance, and symbolic actions need to combine with branding and marketing to create a competitive identity and drive economic growth, she continued to follow the growth in this sector.
Clare launched the first City Nation Place Global conference in London in 2015. CityNationPlace.com has been steadily building followers and in 2017, the first City Nation Place Americas conference was launched. In 2018 City Nation Place Asia Pacific took place in Singapore, and 2019 saw the first City Nation Place UK, specifically for towns, cities and regions across the UK, and the launch of the first City Nation Place LatAm & Caribbean event.
Clare manages the small team at City Nation Place alongside providing event consultancy and management for a number of clients in the publishing and trade association sector, including running the World Media Awards for the World Media Group and event consultancy for the UK Association for Online Publishers.
Bailey joined City Nation Place fresh out of the Puppy Training Academy back in 2019. Whether he's begging for a walk or hopping on to someone's lap while they're trying to meet a deadline, Bailey has 100% commitment to his role as Chief Disruptive Influence within the team.
No one would have it any other way.