Thant Myint-U

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Thant Myint-U
Other forms of name
Myint-U, Thant
U, Thant Myint-
Date of birth
1966-01-31
Associated country
Burma
Great Britain
United States
Occupation
Authors
Historians
Political consultants
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 12293637
Wikidata: Q4925980
Library of congress: nr 96044771
HAI10: 000276337
Sources of Information
  • Wikipedia, January 15, 2019(Thant Myint-U; born 31 January 1966, New York City; Burmese historian, writer, former adviser to the President of Myanmar; founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust; author of four books; a Myanmar national; BSc in government and economics, Harvard University; MA in international relations and international economics, Johns Hopkins University; PhD in history 1996, Cambridge University; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1994-1999, where he taught Asian and British imperial history; he has served in three UN peacekeeping operations: in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia (Sarajevo), and Bosnia and Herzegovina; in 2000 he joined the UN Secretariat in New York)
  • The prospects for economic reform in Burma, 1991:t.p. (Thant Myint-U)
  • The river of lost footsteps, 2006:ECIP t.p. (Thant Myint-U; b. 1966; Policy advisor, UN Emergency Relief Fund)
  • Thant Myint-U, Ph.D. Cambridge; site also mentions about his grandfather U Thant, Secretary General of U.N. ( (Mingalaronline, the official Web site, viewed on Mar. 16, 2006:) )