Dr Wei Yang

CEO, Digital Task Force for Planning, and Chairman

Wei Yang and Partners

Sounding board member

Dr Wei Yang is an internationally renowned town planner and urban designer, who champions a place-based whole systems approach to tackle the grand challenges of our times.

Wei is Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Task Force for Planning, an innovation-led social enterprise, and Founder and Chairman of Wei Yang & Partners, an award-winning master planning firm in London.

Actively promoting joined up thinking between different professionals, Wei is a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences and a board member of the British Library. She was President for 2021 of the Royal Town Planning Institute and will become Construction Industry Council’s first female Chair in June 2023.

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Latest contributions

Planning

04 February 2025

Digital Planning Directory launches: a milestone moment for the UK’s planning sector

Digital Task Force for Planning CEO, Dr Wei Yang, unveils The Digital Planning Directory, a key resource that connects the UK's planning sector with innovative digital solutions.

19 March 2021

Mayoral candidates set out their stall

Built environment professionals and all the main mayoral candidates revealed their positions on key issues affecting London last week…

15 March 2021

What do we need from the next Mayor of London?

Industry leaders provide their ask of the Mayor in this event with discussion around how we implement our proposals. Following the event a letter will be drafted on behalf of this coalition and sent t...

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