Leadership

Yaki Wo’s diverse human experience ranges from being a mother of two to being a non-profit organisational consultant, facilitator and enabler of deep transformations through connection with and as nature.
As the Asia Lead of Architecture 2030, she has been developing and executing the Asia strategy to mitigating climate change and regenerating our living system, aligning the Asia programme with its global strategy and building meaningful connections with individuals and organisations.

Yaki is also a certified nature and forest therapy guide and an ever-evolving regenerative practitioner. She founded Wilderites, a social enterprise that seeks to connect people with the self, others and nature through guided nature therapy walks, circle sharing and immersive experiences.

Her latest passion is introducing regenerative design and development to architects, planners, place makers and community facilitators in Asia through sensing the land, identifying essence and potential, and supporting the emergence of reciprocal relationships.

In an earlier life Yaki was a programme manager at The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation’s climate team and had managed multi-million, multi-year global climate change mitigation programmes in sustainable cities, air quality, coal consumption control, among others.

Yaki holds a BSSc in Journalism and Communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed her MSc Environment and Development at the London School of Economics, fully funded by the FCO’s Chevening Scholarship.