
Ms. Liu Meng leads the UN Global Compact China Office. The UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative and the originator of the ESG concept. Ms. Liu joined the UN in 2007 and has served for nearly two decades across multiple UN entities, including the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), the UN Global Compact headquarters in New York, and regional offices.
Prior to her UN career, she worked at The Asia Foundation and the World Resources Institute, focusing on climate change, environment, and sustainable development issues. Ms. Liu holds a master's degree from the University of San Francisco and was an Asia Public Policy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a U.S. Business Law Fellow at Columbia Law School. She also completed the executive education program "Asia-Pacific Leadership, Policy Innovation, and Geopolitics" at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
In 2015, Ms. Liu was honored as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and in 2021, she was named one of "China's Top 10 Brand Women." From 2020 to 2022, she served on the WEF Global Future Council on Frontier Risks and contributed to the WEF’s annual Global Risks Report.
In 2024, Ms. Liu co-founded the "ESG+20 Sustainable Leadership Dialogue", a multimedia program in collaboration with leading media institutions to explore corporate leadership in ESG and sustainability, reaching millions of viewers. She is also the author of Responsibility Changes the World: How the UN Global Compact is Transforming Business, promoting ESG, responsible investment, and sustainable development.