Yaping Chai is the Landscape practice lead for the Building + Places business line in Asia as well as global chair of the Urbanism + Planning practice committee. Yaping joined AECOM in the San Francisco office and then relocated to Hong Kong, amounting to more than 20 years of international experience. Yaping has a strong expertise in sustainable tourism masterplanning and hospitality landscape design. She is an advocate of AECOM's integrated service offer and the way it interfaces with the complex social, cultural and environmental context of the communities we work in.