Thant Myint-U
| Thant Myint-U | |
|---|---|
| Native name | သန့်မြင့်ဦး |
| Born |
31 January 1966 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University University of Cambridge |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Sofia Busch |
| Parent(s) | Tyn Myint-U Aye Aye Thant |
| Relatives |
U Thant (grandfather) Khin Lei Myint-U (sister) Aye Thi Myint-U (sister) Aye Myint Myint-U (sister) |
| Awards | Fukuoka Grand Prize |
Thant Myint-U (Burmese: သန့်မြင့်ဦး [θa̰ɴ mjɪ̰ɴ ʔú]; born 31 January 1966) is a historian, a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an adviser to the President of Myanmar, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust. He authored two bestselling and critically acclaimed books, The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma and Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
He was named by the Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "100 Leading Global Thinkers" of 2013 and by Prospect Magazine as one of 50 "World Thinkers" of 2014. He was voted 15th in Prospect Magazine's subsequent poll of "World's Leading Thinkers"
Thant Myint-U was born in New York City to Burmese parents and is the grandson of former Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant. He has three sisters. According to him, he has always been a Myanmar national.
He was educated at Harvard University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in History from Cambridge University in 1996, MA in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and BSc in Government and Economics from Harvard University . From 1994-99 he was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he taught Asian and British imperial history. He lectured extensively, including at Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, London University, and the Australian National University.
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