About
Backin’ Dunedin is designed to highlight the ongoing opportunities available for ex-Dunedinites considering a move back to their hometown.
The website profiles people who have found that returning to the city has provided a rewarding step forward in their career and lifestyle. It also tells the stories of people who, while they haven’t returned, have decided to invest in Dunedin and the growing range of business opportunities it provides.
Backin’ Dunedin is a joint initiative of the Dunedin City Council Economic Development Unit and the Otago Boys’ High School Foundation.
Moving to Dunedin hasn't been a homecoming for industrial design consultant Tim Gluyas, but he is feeling right at home.
His wife Anne Mannion, a senior speech therapist, has a strong connection with the city, having lived here for a number of years after initially emigrating to Invercargill 20 years ago, before moving to Dunedin, which quickly became her spiritual home.
On the outside the building would not look out of place in 1910 Chicago – but as Consultancy House heads for its 100th birthday, one of its key tenants is very much a 21st Century Dunedin business.
Although his work involves a lot of globe trotting from his Côte d'Azur home, Adrian Thompson maintains solid, tangible links with Dunedin by refurbishing a 100 year-old bond warehouse.
Martin van Rooyen has a passion for high quality audio manufacturing and for family life. By relocating his business to Dunedin he has managed to establish a perfect balance between the two.
As managing director of 
It was a flying visit but UK Chambers of Commerce 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year and OBHS old boy Geoff Davies has reinvigorated his links with his former city and school during his short time back in Dunedin in November.
As far as Pricewaterhouse Coopers Director Barry Timmings is concerned, Dunedin is about and not or. You can have a great lifestyle and a great career - or doesn't even come into the equation.
From the heady world of British IT to a Dunedin-based, family-owned pie business may seem a big jump, but for former Otago Boys’ High School pupil Brendan Williams, it has been a welcome homecoming.
These days Rod McMeeken has a whole new outlook on Dunedin - and what an outlook it is!
Rod, his wife Shelley, daughter Ali and son Ciaran returned to Dunedin 5 years ago and set about turning a former Christain Brothers Residence perched above central Dunedin into the 15-room ‘
They say ‘still waters run deep' - and when you talk to Ray Parker from Dunedin-based investment house Parker O'Connor Trust Co. Ltd, you begin to realise just how deep Otago's investment pool flows.