Wei Liu

Dr. Wei Liu is a Sustainable Development Officer in the Policy and Analysis Branch of the Division for Sustainable Development, UN-DESA. A Chinese national, Wei Liu joined the United Nations in 2005. He has mainly worked in the area of development policy and contributed to various United Nations publications including the Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report. His research areas cover from green economy and trade, financing for a green economy transition, inequality and post 2015 development agenda, trade finance and aid in the context of global financial crisis, to food security and sustainable agriculture. 

Working in the Rio+20 Secretariat, he was extensively involved in the United Nations Rio + 20 process and provided technical support on green economy, trade and finance related issues for the Rio+20 negotiations. Before that, Wei Liu worked as an Associated Economic Affairs Officer in the Trade and Investment Division, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand, and as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, the UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Birmingham.