Dr Stanley Yip is an experienced urban planner, land economist and urban designer with more than 25 years of professional and senior management experience around the world in Canada, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. He lives in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Dr Yip is currently the Director, Planning & Development with Arup, an internationally acclaimed planning, design and engineering consulting group. He heads the planning and urban design practices of Arup in Mainland China. He has been leading a series of major low carbon urban development and eco-planning projects in China, providing innovative implementation advice to local governments.

In addition to professional work, Dr Yip also participates in steering major research based in Peking University, in the areas of climate change, low carbon city planning, economics of eco-cities and green buildings, in association with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) as well as other prominent research institutes in China.

Dr Yip received his Master in Civic Design from the University of Liverpool and Doctor in Science from the Peking University. He is the Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. He served as policy advisor to Hong Kong SAR Government Central Policy Unit and sat on a number of advisory committees in China.  He is appointed Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.