Dato'Dr Kenneth Yeang King Mun

Dato' Dr Kenneth Yeang was born in Penang in 1948. He began his primary education at Wellesley Primary School and Westlands School in Penang in 1954. His secondary schooling was at the Penang Free School in 1962 and completing this at the Cheltenham Boys College in Gloucestershire (UK) in 1966.

Dato' Yeang received his first qualifications in architecture from the Architectural Association School ('AA') in London. His work on the green agenda started in the 1970s with his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge on ecological design and planning.