Cultural Economic Development
	thinking - doing - connecting

thinking:	Beate has been at the forefront of U.S. thinking about the creative economy for the past ten years. In partnership with Mt. Auburn Associates, she co-authored the Creative Economy Initiative: A Blueprint for Investment in New England’s Creative Economy (2001); Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business (2005) and On The Cultural Road: Lowell’s Cultural Development Plan (2007.) Her articles on the creative economy have been published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Northeast Economic Development Association and others. She has spoken throughout the U.S. and internationally at Creative Clusters conferences in the UK; Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Scotland and the Mayor’s Conference on Cities and Cultural Industries in Istanbul, Turkey.
doing:	Beate pioneered the creation of cultural economic development programs at the city, state and regional levels. She led the nation’s first statewide cultural economic development funding program, today called the Adams Arts Program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. As founding director of the Creative Economy Initiative, she managed a six-state coalition of business, government and cultural leaders that produced groundbreaking work on the creative economy. While at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, she laid the foundation for the City’s Create Boston program and initiated the innovative Youth Design Boston program.
connecting:	A firm believer in the power of human connection, Beate has organized tours of U.S. music and design companies for creative industry trade missions sponsored by the Scottish Highlands and Island Enterprise and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. She co-founded Shapeshifters, a Vienna-based global network of creative professionals. And she is currently directing a series of international design symposia for the Massachusetts College of Art that brings together Boston-area designers with their design peers in Europe and the UK.
about:	Beate is an independent consultant specializing in cultural economic development. She has a B.A. from Bennington College and an M.B.A. from the Yale University School of Management. She studied jewelry and metal work at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and was a flute maker at Verne Q. Powell Flutes.
contact:	Beate Becker 179 Appleton Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel. 781-789-8919 Fax 617-547-0893 Email beate@beatebecker.com