Landesa
Yifan Song is an experienced professional with a strong background in land tenure, governance, and international law. As Technical Lead and Acting Program Director at Landesa since 2015, Yifan focuses on land tenure security, gender equality in land rights, and responsible corporate supply chain management. Prior experience includes working as a Social Safeguards Staff Consultant at the Asian Development Bank, where Yifan ensured compliance with social safeguard guidelines for loan projects, and as Project Manager at China Friendship Development Engineering Design and Consultancy, overseeing sustainable urbanization projects. Previous roles also include conducting research on mineral supply chains at Levin Sources and serving as an Associate Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Academic qualifications include an LLM in International Law from New York University, an MS in International Development from the London School of Economics, and a LLB from Peking University.
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Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that rural women and men living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1981, Landesa has helped more than 720 million people strengthen legal control over their land in the last five years. When people have secure land rights, they can invest in their land to sustainably increase their harvests and reap the benefits—improved nutrition, health, education, resilience, and opportunity—for generations.