Than Myint | |
Native Name: | Burmese: သန်းမြင့် |
Native Name Lang: | Burmese |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1943 |
Birth Place: | Ingapu Township, British Burma (now Myanmar) |
Office: | Minister for Commerce |
Term Start: | 30 March 2016 |
Term End: | 1 February 2021 |
Predecessor: | Win Myint |
Successor: | Pwint San |
President: | Htin Kyaw Myint Swe (acting) Win Myint |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2016 |
Term End1: | 30 March 2016 |
Constituency1: | Hlaingthaya |
Party: | National League for Democracy (NLD) |
Alma Mater: | Yangon Institute of Economics |
Spouse: | Khin Htay |
Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
Than Myint (my|သန်းမြင့် in Burmese pronounced as /θáɴ mjɪ̰ɴ/; born 17 January 1943) is a Burmese politician and former Minister for Commerce of Myanmar (Burma).
Than Myint was born on 17 January 1943 to Tin Maung and Daw San in the village of Sitkyun, Ingapu Township, Burma (now Myanmar).[1]
He previously served as a National League for Democracy (NLD) Member of the House of Representatives for the constituency of Hlaingthaya.[2] [3]
In 2016 he was nominated as Minister of Commerce in Htin Kyaw's inaugural Cabinet, whereupon his academic credentials came under scrutiny and he was revealed to have listed a PhD on his CV from Pacific Western University (California), a now defunct institution which was not accredited, and had been found by a US congressional investigation to be a diploma mill which issued degrees without requiring students to meet stringent criteria of academic merit.[4]
During the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état on 1 February, Than Myint was placed under house arrest by the Myanmar Armed Forces.[5]
Than Myint is married to Thin Htay, a retired development bureaucrat and has no children.