Haoliang Xu

Mr. Xu served as UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Appointed on 13 August 2013, Mr. Xu^[3] led UNDP support to the country and regional sustainable development programs in 36 countries in Asia and Pacific. His tenure has been focused on reinventing UNDP's 24 Country Offices in Asia-Pacific, the Regional Hub in Bangkok, and Headquarters in New York.

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 has appeared on the Washington Post, BBC World TV, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal and other top-tier media. He delivered policy speeches at Harvard, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and other universities. He was featured^[4] by the EY and The Guardian in the 2014 Global Public Leaders Series.^[5]

Haoliang Xu: How Aid Now Works and Why It Still Matters

Haoliang Xu: The Changing Role of UNDP in Asia-Pacific Archived 2017-04-04 at the Wayback Machine

Haoliang Xu and Ramya Gopalan: Fighting the innovation antibodies: Three years of exploration at UNDP Asia-Pacific

Devex interview with Haoliang Xu: Fielding 'complex asks' from cities on environment, policy director says