Wunna Maung Lwin

Wunna Maung Lwin
Wunna Maung Lwin
	ဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်
19th and 21st Minister of Foreign Affairs
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 2021
President	Myint Swe (Acting)
Leader	Min Aung Hlaing
Preceded by	Aung San Suu Kyi
	In office; 30 March 2011 – 30 March 2016
President	Thein Sein
Preceded by	Nyan Win
Succeeded by	Aung San Suu Kyi
Permanent Representative to the United Nations[1]
	In office; 2007 – 30 March 2011
Leader	Than Shwe
Succeeded by	Maung Wai
Personal details
Born	30 May 1952 (age 68); Thaton, Mon State, Burma
Nationality	Burmese
Political party	USDP (2010–2016)
Spouse(s)	Lin Lin Tin
Parents	Maung Lwin (father)
Alma mater	Defence Services Academy; Methodist English High School
Cabinet	Min Aung Hlaing's military cabinet
Military service
Allegiance	Myanmar
Branch/service	Myanmar Army
Years of service	1971–1998
Rank	Colonel

Wunna Maung Lwin (Burmese: ဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်; born 30 May 1952[2]) is a Burmese politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2011 to March 2016 and since February 2021.

Born

Wunna Maung Lwin was born in Thaton, Mon State. His father, Lieutenant Colonel Maung Lwin, was a Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1969 to 1970, under the Burma Socialist Programme Party.[3]

Career

He joined the Myanmar Diplomatic service in 2000, after a long career in the Myanmar Armed Forces from 1971 to 1998. Before he holds the current position, he served as Director-General of the Ministry of Border Affairs (Myanmar) from July 1998 to September 2000, Myanmar Ambassador to Israel from 2000 to 2001, France from 2001 to 2004, Belgium and EU from 2004 to 2007 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland from 2007 to 2011. He graduated from the 16th intake of the Defence Services Academy in 1971.[2]

References

Wai Moe (13 July 2011). "Wunna Maung Lwin: Military Commander to Foreign Minister". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 21 August 2011.

"Burma Issues and Concerns: Locked In, Tied Up: Burma's Disciplined Democracy". 7. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. April 2011: 14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"Cabinet Ministers". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
Zay Thu (27 August 2014). "ဒီမိုကရေစီ အစိုးရတွင်လည်း မဆလလူကြီးများ၏ သားသမီးများသာ ရာထူးကြီးများ ရယူထား". Tomorrow (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 July 2015.

Political offices
Preceded by Nyan Win	Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011–2016	Succeeded by Aung San Suu Kyi
Political offices
Preceded by Aung San Suu Kyi	Minister of Foreign Affairs 2021-present	Incumbent

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[1] "Burma Issues and Concerns: Locked In, Tied Up: Burma's Disciplined Democracy". 7. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. April 2011: 14. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[altsean-2] "Cabinet Ministers". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. Retrieved 12 February 2014.

[3] Zay Thu (27 August 2014). "ဒီမိုကရေစီ အစိုးရတွင်လည်း မဆလလူကြီးများ၏ သားသမီးများသာ ရာထူးကြီးများ ရယူထား". Tomorrow (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 July 2015.