Franklyn Kanyako is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. He received his B.Sc. in Aeronautic and Astronautic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He moved Abu Dhabi, UAE for M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering on scholarship from the International Renewable Energy Agency(IRENA), where he research on vertical axis wind turbines. After graduating in 2014, he interned at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Change Support Team in New York.