| Haoliang Xu | |
| Native Name: | 徐浩良 |
| Term Start: | June 26, 2023 |
| Office: | Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme |
| Appointer: | António Guterres |
| Office2: | Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support of the United Nations Development Programme |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Yixing, Jiangsu, China |
| Education: | Tongji University Stevens Institute of Technology Columbia University |
| Termstart2: | July 3, 2019 |
| Office1: | United Nations Under-Secretary-General |
| Termstart1: | June 26, 2023 |
| Appointer1: | António Guterres |
| Appointer2: | António Guterres |
| Predecessor: | Usha Rao-Monari |
| Predecessor1: | Usha Rao-Monari |
| Predecessor2: | Pedro Conceição |
Haoliang Xu is the United Nations(UN) Under-Secretary-General since 2023, Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) since 2023, and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support of UNDP in New York since 2019.[1]
Xu, a Chinese national, holds a Bachelor in Bridge Engineering from Tongji University, and a Master's degree in Management 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.[2]
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
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