Professional background

Trained at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Muyi Yang works across urban resilience, climate policy, and public-sector delivery, with recent advisory work in Freetown focused on strategic climate portfolio assessment, planning-instrument restructuring, implementation diagnostics, and government-side technical-policy review.

Recent work has included designing and leading a 94-page Strategic Portfolio Assessment across 37+ climate interventions for Freetown City Council, producing an Executive Brief to inform the prioritisation strategy of the Mayor's Office, restructuring the Moyiba Area Action Plan into a more implementation-oriented planning and investment-guidance document, and conducting government-side technical-policy review to strengthen the policy usability of partner air-quality and vulnerability deliverables.

My work has turned fragmented programme and technical evidence into senior-facing advisory judgments, clearer delivery priorities, stronger planning instruments, and more actionable policy responses inside city government.

Earlier work has included transport and mobility policy support, government-facing infrastructure delivery exposure, and institution-building in a conflict-affected setting, where I founded and ran an education institution serving displaced youth. I was educated at the University of Oxford, Uppsala University, and Illinois Wesleyan University, and was awarded the Kwok Scholarship, the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship, and the Rotary Peace Fellowship.