Upcoming Session

SHAMUN XXVI

October 23-25, 2026

The Shatterpoint

SHAMUN XXV Recap

“Without trust, we cannot face the difficult challenges in our world today.”

— António Guterres

Mr. Wu served during a pivotal period in the evolution of the global sustainable development agenda. Under his leadership, UN DESA provided substantive support to the intergovernmental process leading to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. He oversaw the Department’s support to the negotiations and preparations that helped shape the new global development framework and subsequently worked to advance its implementation, follow-up and review.

Mr. Wu also served as Secretary-General of several major United Nations conferences. He was Secretary-General of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States in 2014, which resulted in the adoption of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway). He subsequently served as Secretary-General of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in 2015, which produced the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a global framework for financing sustainable development and supporting implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In 2017, he served as Secretary-General of the first United Nations Ocean Conference, convened to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on oceans and marine resources.

Keynote Speaker - Mr. Hongbo Wu

Mr. Hongbo Wu graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University and pursued postgraduate studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Mr. Wu held a number of senior diplomatic positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. He served as Deputy Director-General of the Department of West European Affairs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of the Philippines, Director-General of the General Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, from 2007 to 2009, Assistant Foreign Minister, with responsibilities covering European affairs, information and consular affairs. In August 2009, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Germany, a position he held until 2012.

In 2012, Mr. Wu was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, assuming office on 1 August 2012. From 2012 to 2017, he headed the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), overseeing its work in support of the United Nations intergovernmental processes and its analytical and capacity-development activities in the economic, social and sustainable development fields.