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Fan Yang

Fan Yang is an international development consultant whose work spans economic research, project evaluation, and innovative risk financing – most recently at the World Bank. Her evolving interests lie in exploring the inner dimensions of socio-economic development and crafting integrative approaches that weave together diverse knowledge systems with ecological awareness. A quantitative analyst by training, she previously worked in insurance analytics and catastrophe modeling at AIG and TransRe in New York. She is committed to promoting the power of transformative arts and culture, and to fostering the emergence of commons-oriented societies and regenerative financial systems that support holistic well-being.

Fan Yang in Kosmos

Position Paper | A Commons-Based Architecture for Climate Finance


Drawing from systems thinking, indigenous stewardship models, and emerging legal innovations (such as rights of nature and intergenerational governance), the author outlines pathways toward a multi-level trust structure that redistributes authority, redefines prosperity, and embeds long-term ecological resilience at the core of global governance.


Published in Volume 25 Issue 6

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Toward an Eco-Social Contract for Regenerative Futures


This essay introduces the eco-social contract as a visionary governance framework that integrates power, transaction, and care across state, market, and commons. In contrast to fragmented, transactional development approaches, it emphasizes relational processes, civic agency, and bioregional stewardship.


Published in Volume 25 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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