Xu Haoliang, the newly appointed Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, has traveled through various disciplines such as civil engineering, management, and national customs. The United Nations Development Programme | Secretary General | Study Path

Release time:Apr 13, 2024 23:50 PM

According to Xinhua News Agency on June 26th, UN Secretary General Guterres announced the appointment of Xu Haoliang from China as the UN Deputy Secretary General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, Xu Haoliang will replace Usha Rao Monari from India. Xu Haoliang has served as Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Policy Bureau of the Development Programme since 2019. From 2013 to 2019, he served as the Assistant Director of the Development Programme and Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau. Previously, Xu Haoliang held multiple positions in the United Nations system and worked at United Nations headquarters as well as multiple regional offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, and Central Asia.

Xu Haoliang graduated from Tongji University in China and later obtained master's degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University in the United States.

Public information shows that since 2013, Xu Haoliang has served as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Development Programme and Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau. He joined the Development Programme in 1994 and has over 25 years of experience in international development. He has worked in multiple areas of the Programme and has been deployed to various regions including Asia Pacific, Europe, and Central Asia, including New York, Iran, East Timor, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan.

During his tenure in multiple positions, Xu Haoliang led the implementation of large-scale reform plans, created a high-performance team, and greatly improved the team's work efficiency. He places special emphasis on a clear strategic vision, a collaborative team culture, and a development philosophy of continuous innovation, and collaborates with colleagues to implement influential development plans. Before joining the United Nations system, he worked in civil engineering in China and the United States.

On July 3, 2019, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Chinese citizen Xu Haoliang as Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Policy and Programme Support Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme.

The reporter from Pengpai News noticed that Xu Haoliang had returned to his alma mater Tongji University several times to share his experiences.

According to an article published on the official website of Tongji University in June 2015 titled "Alumni Xu Haoliang, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Visited the Excellent Civil Engineering Lecture Forum", Xu Haoliang was an alumnus of Tongji University's Bridge major in 1979. After graduation, he worked in Li Guohao's research group. At that time, the development of computers was rapid, and he realized his own weariness with calculation and drawing. He decided to self-study English and go abroad to find new possibilities for development. He said, "When I was a child, I often looked up at the sky in the courtyard of my home in Shanghai, imagining following the plane passing by to the distance." Perhaps this memory has cultivated such a person who is brave in pursuit. At first, he accepted an offer from Wayne State University in Detroit, but on the evening of his transfer in San Francisco, he realized that going abroad was just a transition from studying civil engineering to studying automotive, which did not fulfill his wish. Therefore, he contacted Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States to study civil engineering in the first year and transfer to management in the second year - "This is a choice that determines my life," Xu Haoliang said.

After graduation, he realized that his career direction was nothing more than management engineering, which contradicted his initial aspirations. Therefore, he decided to pursue a more interested international relations major and successfully entered Columbia University to study.

In 1993, Xu Haoliang, a graduate student at Columbia University, found an internship position in a department of the United Nations Development Programme. After the internship, he was offered a 15 day employment contract. Due to the value of his work, the 15 day contract was extended for another 15 days, then extended to 30 days, and then extended to 3 months. Through continuous renewal of short-term contracts, he gradually established a foothold at the United Nations.

Later, he hoped to find a stable job and let everyone know that he was looking for a job, until one day he obtained a two-year contract in Kazakhstan. Afterwards, I found another job at the Asia Pacific Bureau, and after the one-year contract expired, the United Nations voluntarily proposed to renew it for another year. In the fifth year, he was determined to become a full-time employee and after unremitting efforts to find a higher position job, he negotiated with his superiors and was given the opportunity to become a full-time employee. Subsequently, in positions such as Director of the Development Programme in Iran, Senior Deputy Representative in East Timor, and Deputy Representative in Pakistan, I have gradually progressed to the present day. He said, "Don't be afraid when encountering problems, strive for them, and come up with solutions on your own."

From April 25 to 27, 2019, the second "the Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing. The UN Secretary General Guterres led the UN delegation to participate. Xu Haoliang, as one of the representatives, also actively participated in many activities of the whole forum.

Xu Haoliang, the then Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Director of the Asia Pacific Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme, said in an exclusive interview with surging journalists, "There is no doubt that the the Belt and Road has become a new engine for economic development. We hope that the contribution of the the Belt and Road to the world not only lies in economic and development, but also can be used as an engine for achieving sustainable development, which includes focusing on the environment and the sustainability of social development. In order to achieve these goals, many United Nations agencies hope to actively participate, consult extensively, build together, and benefit from the results together.".

In fact, Xu Haoliang's UNDP became the first international organization to sign the "the Belt and Road" cooperation agreement with the Chinese government on September 19, 2016. Later, the two sides also established a joint working group to jointly promote the "the Belt and Road" construction, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation and other units. Ning Jizhe, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Chinese leader of the Joint Working Group, once commented that "the joint construction of the 'the Belt and Road' initiative and the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have a significant demonstration effect of cooperation".

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