Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr | City of Freetown Freetown, Sierra Leone
Biography
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE is Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Co-Chair of C40 Cities. A finance professional and Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ private-sector experience, she champions inclusive, data-driven urban transformation. Her Transform Freetown agenda has delivered major advances in climate action, sanitation, revenue digitalisation and urban mobility, including 1.2m trees planted and tracked. She is Laureate of the 2024 German Africa Award and a Forbes Sustainability Leader.Sessions
16:05h
High-Level Roundtable |
SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS
| Energy & Environment |
| Governance & Economy |
Can Cities Afford to Be Resilient? Investment, Energy, and Urban Growth
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
City of Freetown
Mayor
Speaker
Ana Abrunhosa
Municipality of Coimbra
Mayor
Speaker
Pipo Serrano
Leitmotiv.
Founder
Moderator
Edlam Abera Yemeru
UN-Habitat
Director – Knowledge and Innovation Branch
Speaker
#SmartCityExpo
