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 36 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.