Speaker

Phil Ginsburg

He/Him/His
General Manager
San Francisco Recreation and Park
San Francisco, California
United States

Phil Ginsburg is the general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department where he is the second longest serving Parks Director in City history. With over 4,100 acres and more than 220 parks under its jurisdiction, the Recreation and Park Department stewards some of the most spectacular public spaces in the world, including Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower and the Palace of Fine Arts. Under Phil’s leadership, San Francisco became the first city in the United States where 100 percent of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park. Phil has led his organization through transformational improvements to the public realm and he has made equity and increasing access to public recreation and to nature, the department’s primary objective.

Among his many accomplishments, Phil instituted the first state-certified horticultural apprenticeship program in California and is leading the transformation of a 1.7 mile stretch of the City’s southern waterfront using an equitable development planning process. Phil has built a financially sustainable model for San Francisco’s park system through ballot advocacy, the strategic use of public-private partnerships and philanthropy, creative revenue strategies, technology and administrative efficiencies. During his tenure, San Francisco has been consistently ranked one of the nation’s top ten park systems.

Phil is the Chair of the California State Parks and Recreation Commission after being appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom and confirmed by the State Senate in 2019 and 2022. He was named to the National Recreation and Park Association Board of Directors in 2022. In 2023, Phil became a board member of the Children & Nature Network, and in 2017 was a founding co-chair of San Francisco Children and Nature, a collective-impact based convener of over 40 different organizations focused on increasing nature access for San Francisco’s youth.

Contact:
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+1 415-831-2700
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