Thant Myint-U

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thant Myint-U
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1966(1966-01-31)
Age	58
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Thant Myint-U Biography

Thant Myint-U is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on January 31, 1966 in New York, United States. Thant Myint U (Burmese:”sn’mng’uu”: [thaW mjIbirth date on the 31st of January, 1966) is a Burmese historian and writer. He was a former fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, an adviser for the president of Myanmar and the founding as chairman and founder of the Yangon Heritage Trust. The author is of 5 books among them The River of Lost Footsteps A Personal The Story of Burma and The Place China meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia which received acclaim from critics in India. The first was listed in Indian’s Monster and Critics’ non-fiction bestsellers list for the fourth week in October 2007.

He joined the UN in 2000. was a part of in 2000 the UN Secretariat in New York. He started his work in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs before moving to the United Nations Department of Political Affairs as well as the Policy Planning Unit as a chief in 2004. At the time, he was a part of the secretariat of Secretary-General’s Panel for Threats, and Challenges and Change (High level Threat Panel). From the end of 2005 until the middle of 2006, he served as temporarily a senior officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Thant Myint-U was born in New York City to Burmese parents. He grew up in Riverdale, Bronx at the home of his maternal grandfather, the then-Secretary- General of the United Nations U Thant. He studied at Riverdale Country School, a private college-preparatory day school in Bronx. He has three sisters. A former US citizen, he gained Burmese citizenship in 2011 and is now a Myanmar national.

For his efforts to preserve Yangon’s colonial buildings, he was named by the Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers” in its annual list in 2013. He was voted 15th in Prospect magazine’s annual online poll of the “World’s Leading Thinkers” in 2014 in a list which feature many notable Indians including Kaushik Basu.He received Fukuoka Prize in 2015 awarded by the city of Fukuoka. In 2018, he received Padma Shri.

Thant was married with Sofia Busch. The actor has one son named Thurayn-Harri who was born on the 29th of November, 1999. Hanna Gudrun, a native of Iceland.

Thant Myint-U Net Worth

Thant Myint-U is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thant Myint-U 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He has been a part of three UN peacekeeping missions. He was an officer for human rights from 1992 until 1993 in the UN Transitional Authority for Cambodia in Phnom Penh. The year 1994 was the time he served as the principal spokesperson of the UN Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia located in Sarajevo. He was also a political adviser in 1996. worked as an adviser to the political branch of The Office of United Nations’ Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Thant received the BSc in economics and government at Harvard University, an MA in international relations and economics at Johns Hopkins University, and his doctorate in history at Cambridge University in 1996. From 1994 until 1999, he was a junior researcher Fellow (similar to postdoctoral research within the United States) of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he taught Burmese language instructor.

Aside from being chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust, he was, from 2011 to 2015, a member of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council, and a special adviser to the Myanmar government for the peace process at the Myanmar Peace Centre, a senior research fellow of the Myanmar Development Resources Institute, a member of the Fund Board of the (Myanmar) Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund.

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Who is Thant Myint-U Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Thant Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Thant Myint-U celebrates birthday on January 31 of every year.