Mr. Haoliang Xu
UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP and Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support New York
Mr. Haoliang Xu was appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director for the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support by the UN Secretary-General in July 2019. Previously, he was UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific (2013-2019); Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in New York (2010-2013); UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Kazakhstan (2007-2010); Country Director, Pakistan (2005-2007); Deputy Resident Representative for Programme, Pakistan (2004-2005); Country Manager and Senior Deputy Resident Representative, Timor-Leste (2002-2004); Deputy Resident Representative, Iran (2000-2002); Programme Manager, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in New York (1997-1999); Programme Officer/Junior Professional Officer, Kazakhstan (1995-1997). Before joining the UN, he was a computer-aided design engineer with Louis Berger International Inc. in New Jersey and assistant lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai. A Chinese national, he holds a Bachelors in Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai, Masters’ of Science in Management from Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), and Masters’ of International Affairs in Economic Development and Policy Analysis from Columbia University (USA).