Dr Wei Yang is Chair of Wei Yang; Partners, an award-winning master planning firm in London, and an Honorary Professor at University College London. Wei was President of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2021.

Wei is a lead figure in researching, promoting, and implementing 21st Century Garden City and green; low-carbon development approach worldwide. She is Co-chair of the Digital Task Force for Planning and the Global Planners Network (GPN)’s representative at UN-Habitat Professional Forum.

Wei champions a revival of spirit and a modernised planning profession to tackle the global challenges in a systematic way, and thus to achieve collective wellbeing and fulfilment for all.

Actively promoting joined-up thinking among different professionals, Wei is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a board member of the British Library, and a Board Trustee of Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre.