Htin Kyaw

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Htin Kyaw (2017)

Htin Kyaw (Burmese ထင် ကျော်, [ tʰɪ̀ɴ tɕɔ̀ ]; born July 20, 1946 in Kungyangon ) is a Myanmar economist, writer and politician. From March 2016 to March 2018 he was President of his country.

On March 15, 2016, the Myanmar parliament elected him to succeed Thein Sein as President of Myanmar (Burma). He became the first non-military civilian to head the country in more than 50 years. On March 21, 2018, he announced his resignation.

Life

Htin Kyaw at the age of six with his father Min Thu Wun (1952)

Education and career

Htin Kyaw, who belongs to the Bamar and Mon ethnic groups , was born in the Yangon region as the son of Min Thu Wun (1909-2004), a poet, writer, scholar and later member of parliament. He studied economics at the Yangon Institute of Economics, where he received his master's degree in 1968. After working for a short time as a programmer at the University of Rangoon , he studied from 1971 to 1972 at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of London . In 1975 he received a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Rangoon. In 1987 he also attended a course at the Arthur D. Little School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Since the 1970s he has worked as a university lecturer and in the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Myanmar, among other things as deputy director of the department for foreign trade and international economic relations. When the military regime tightened the repressive course in 1992, he resigned from his office.

opposition

On September 22, 2000, he was arrested along with other opposition activists at Rangoon train station while trying to help Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest, travel to Mandalay . He then spent four months in prison. From 2012 he was a member of the board of directors of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a foundation that advocates better health care, education and the improvement of the living standards of the Myanmar population.

Presidency

Already after the first free parliamentary election and the victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in 2015, he was considered a possible candidate for the office of President, since the constitution of Myanmar, the chairwoman of the NLD Aung San Suu Kyi, this office due to the British citizenship of her two Sons denied. He is also a member of the NLD and is a close confidante of Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he has known since school.

On March 11, 2016, he was initially elected one of the vice-presidents of Myanmar, before he was elected president of the country four days later by parliament with 360 of 652 votes. On March 30, 2016, he was officially sworn in in the parliament in the capital Naypyidaw . His term of office began on April 1, 2016. On March 21, 2018, he announced his resignation. According to the constitution, parliament has to designate a successor within seven days. According to observers, Army chief Min Aung Hlaing had gained considerable influence in the previous months.

Private life

He has been married to Su Su Lwin (* 1946), who is also a politician and member of parliament, since 1973. His father-in-law U Lwin (1924–2011) was one of the founders of the National League for Democracy.

Literary work

Under the pseudonym Dala Ban , Htin Kyaw wrote several books, including a biography about his father.

Web links

Commons : Htin Kyaw  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. a b Ei Ei Toe Lwin: Daw Suu eyes foreign minister role. Myanmar Times , February 26, 2016, accessed March 30, 2016 .
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  7. Burma: First civil president in decades - Htin Kyaw sworn in . Spiegel Online , March 30, 2016, accessed March 30, 2016.
  8. Southeast Asia: Myanmar's President resigns . In: tagesschau.de, March 21, 2018 (accessed March 21, 2018).