Dr Wei Yang is a renowned town planner and urban designer. She is a lead figure in researching, promoting, and implementing 21st Century Garden City approach worldwide. She is President of Royal Town Planning Institute for 2021.
Wei's professional strengths lie in combining innovative planning inspirations with feasible implementation solutions. She has extensive experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams and is now leading large scale regeneration and low carbon master planning projects in Britain and internationally.
Wei is the Founder and Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, an award-winning UK master planning firm driven by a commitment to shape more sustainable and liveable places. The company specialises on 21st Century Garden City, which captures the essence of the original idea but adapting it to a more complex, 21st century context.
Another major focus of Wei’s work has been to help forge a closer UK-China cooperation on sustainable urbanisation. Over the last 10 years, Wei has become a key figure in China in promoting urban-rural balanced development approaches, focusing not only on economic growth, but also on social integration and environmental issues.
Wei’s professional achievements and leadership qualities have been recognised internationally. She is a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and a Fellow of Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI). She is a regular chair and speaker at high-level international conferences. Wei is the Global Planners Network (GPN)’s representative at UN Habitat Professional Forum.
