Li Junhua

Li Junhua (; born August 1962) is a Chinese politician and diplomat, currently serving as Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations.

Biography

Li holds a master's degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. In that role he heads the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and has responsibility for coordinating the Secretariat's support for 2030 Agenda follow-up processes and for overseeing the meetings of the General Assembly's Second and Third Committees and the meetings of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and its subsidiary organs.

In June 2025, Li was the secretary-general of the Third UN Ocean Conference, held in Nice, France, and in June–July 2025, he held the same position at the UN's 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, Spain.