Yvonne Yeung

Biography: Yvonne Yeung is the Director of Development for the Transit Oriented Communities Program at Infrastructure Ontario, leading the implementation of TOCs along the new subway line in Downtown Toronto, Canada. She is a professional planner, urban designer, landscape architect, LEED Accredited Professional, and project management professional. She has over 23 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors delivering award-winning transit-oriented communities worldwide. Specialized in team building, executive strategy, large-scale transformation and cross-sector implementation, Yvonne is the recipient of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management MBA Award, the American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award, and numerous other industry planning and design awards. Appointed as the Urban Land Institute's Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, Vice-chair of the ULI SDRC Product Council, member of ULI Infrastructure Forum Leadership, ULI Toronto Advisory Board and ULI WLI Women’s Leadership Initiative Champions, Yvonne founded the “ULI Getting to Transit Oriented Communities Initiative” and authored the "ULI 15-Minute Communities: A Leadership Guide" - a practical tool to inform how cities can better position infrastructure investment to deliver healthy, equitable, 15-min walkable complete communities through synergistic collaboration as a blueprint. Yvonne holds a Master of Business Administration, Executive, from the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.