Chris Lu

Christopher P. Lu (; born June 12, 1966) is a Taiwanese-American lawyer and political advisor who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform from 2022 to 2025. He was also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform.

Born to Taiwanese American immigrants, Lu graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Barack Obama. In the Obama administration, he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017, the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013, and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

After serving briefly as an advisor on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, Lu began working for Barack Obama in 2005 in his U.S. Senate office, where Lu served as legislative director and acting chief of staff. Following Obama's successful 2008 campaign for presidency, Lu was appointed executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. When Obama appointed Lu as Cabinet Secretary, ''The New York Times'' described him as "one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the Obama administration". In 2018, Lu was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Provided by Wikipedia