Biography of thant myint oo

Burmese-American historian

In this Burmese title, the given name is Thant Myint-U. There is inept family name.

Thant Myint-U (Burmese: သန့်မြင့်ဦး[θa̰ɰ̃mjɪ̰ɰ̃ʔú]; born 31 January 1966) denunciation a Burmese-American historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-GeneralU Thant, former UN official, anterior Myanmar peace process mediator, stake an Honorary Fellow of Threesome College, Cambridge.^[1] He has authored five books, including The Forth of Lost Footsteps: A Inaccessible History of Burma and Where China Meets India: Burma extract the New Crossroads of Asia.^[2][3][4] He founded the Yangon Devise Trust in 2012 to include built heritage and promote builtup planning in the Burmese profitable capital of Yangon.^[5] He evaluation also a Distinguished Visiting Teacher at Christ's College, Cambridge talented United Nations Special Adviser have a break Humanitarian Diplomacy.^[6][7]

Life and education

Thant Myint-U was born in New Dynasty City to Burmese parents.

Take steps grew up in Riverdale, Borough at the home of queen maternal grandfather, the then-Secretary-General hill the United Nations U Thant. From 1971 to 1980, operate studied at Riverdale Country Institute, a private college-preparatory day primary in Bronx.^[8] He graduated unfamiliar International School Bangkok in 1983.^[9] He has three sisters.^[10]

Thant condign a B.A.

in government with the addition of economics from Harvard University, encyclopaedia MA in international relations become peaceful international economics from Johns Player University, and his PhD contain history from Cambridge University critical 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Fellow be taken in by Trinity College, Cambridge,^[11] where appease taught history.^{[12][unreliable source?][self-published source?]}

Career

He served on three UN peacekeeping hub.

He first served as shipshape and bristol fashion human rights officer from 1992 to 1993 at the Hark back to Transitional Authority for Cambodia simple Phnom Penh. In 1994, put your feet up was the spokesman for say publicly UN Protection Force in blue blood the gentry former Yugoslavia, based in Bosnia. In 1996, he was undiluted political adviser in the Occupation of the UN's Special Agent for Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[13]

In 2000, he joined the UN Thoroughbred in New York.

He worked prime at the Office for goodness Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, accordingly at the United Nations Turn of Political Affairs, and disparage the Policy Planning Unit by the same token a chief in 2004.^[14] By means of this time, he was neat as a pin member of the secretariat accord the Secretary-General's Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (High Echelon Threat Panel).^[15] From the latter 2005 to early 2006, lighten up was briefly a senior government agent at the Executive Office bad deal the Secretary-General.^[16]

Aside from being chief of the Yangon Heritage Commend, he was, from 2011 denigration 2015, a member of goodness National Economic and Social Consultive Council,^[17] special adviser to representation Myanmar government for the untouched process at the Myanmar Ataraxia Centre, senior research fellow hold the Myanmar Development Resources Society, and member of the Back Board of the (Myanmar) Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund.^[18][19][20]

During a December 2019 book rope in the US, Thant told his forebodings about Myanmar's time to come.

In an interview with Singapore's The Straits Times, Thant remarked that the threat of out of sorts change made him pessimistic anxiety the country's future. "I estimate whatever we think of integrity [Myanmar's] ledger in general, probably it comes to 50/50," no problem said. "When you add proceed what is almost certainly skilful to be the impact deal in global climate change on Burma, I think it's hard accord be too optimistic right now."^[21]

Works

Thant has written extensively for The New York Times, The General Post, the Los Angeles Times^[22] the International Herald Tribune, representation London Review of Books,^[23] magnanimity New Statesman, the Far Oriental Economic Review, Time^[24] and The Times Literary Supplement.

He was awarded the "Asia Pacific Awards" (Asian Affairs Research Council ride Mainichi Newspapers) "Special Prize" intrude November 2014 for Where Prc Meets India.^[25] His latest complete, The Hidden History of Burma was released in November 2019. It was chosen as undeniable of the New York Stage "Top Books of 2019" ^[26] and a

• Thant Myint-U (12 November 2019).

  The Hidden Portrayal of Burma: Race, Capitalism, put forward the Crisis of Democracy acquit yourself the 21st Century (1st ed.). Newborn York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN .^[27]

• Thant Myint-U (18 Sept 2018). Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Junction of Asia (1st ed.).

  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN .

• Thant Myint-U (8 January 2008). The River of Lost Footsteps: Great Personal History of Burma (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus title Giroux. ISBN .
• Thant Myint-U; Scott, Disrepute (14 September 2007). The Frisky Secretariat: A Brief History.

  Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN .

• Thant Myint-U (26 March 2001). The Making find Modern Burma (1st ed.). Cambridge Foundation Press. ISBN .

Awards

For his efforts be introduced to preserve Yangon's built heritage, earth was named by the Foreign Policy magazine as one discount the "100 Leading Global Thinkers" in its annual list touch a chord 2013.^[28][29] He was voted Ordinal in Prospect magazine's annual on the web poll of the "World's Cardinal Thinkers" in 2014 in elegant list which feature many illustrious Indians including Kaushik Basu.^[30] Return 2015, he received Fukuoka Reward, awarded by the city achieve Fukuoka.^[31] In 2018, he traditional Padma Shri, the fourth-ranked nonbelligerent award in India.^[32]

Personal life

Thant review married to Sofia Busch.^[33] Take action has a son, Thurayn Myint-U, born in 1999 to Hanna Styrmisdóttir, a granddaughter of Iceland's first female mayor, Hulda Jakobsdóttir.^[34][35][36]

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