Haoliang Xu

Haoliang Xu is an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme.[1]

Appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon,[2] on 13 August 2013, Xu[3] oversees UNDP support to country and regional sustainable development programmes in 36 countries in Asia and Pacific.

Previously, Xu was Deputy Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States at UNDP. Prior to that, he held senior UNDP positions in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Timor-Leste and Iran. Before joining the UN, Xu was a computer-aided design engineer with Louis Berger Group in Morristown, New Jersey, United States, and an assistant lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

Xu, a Chinese national, holds a Bachelors in Engineering from Tongji University, and a Masters’ of Science in Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology, United States. He also holds a Masters’ of International Affairs in Economic Development and Policy Analysis from Columbia University.

Xu was featured[4] by the EY and The Guardian in the 2014 Global Public Leaders Series.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Home | UNDP". Asia-pacific.undp.org. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  2. ↑ "Secretary-General Appoints Haoliang Xu of China as Assistant Administrator, United Nations Development Programme". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  3. ↑ "Haoliang Xu". UNDP. 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  4. ↑ "Haoliang Xu, UN assistant secretary-general, on effective digital government | Public Leaders Network". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  5. ↑ "Global public leaders series | Public Leaders Network". The Guardian. 2012-11-23. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
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