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Nyunt Maung Shein

H.E. U Nyunt Maung Shein (1945 - ) has served the Government of Myanmar for forty years before retiring as Ambassador/ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva in 2008. He held various diplomatic positions at Myanmar Missions in Bern, Hanoi, Bangkok, Dhaka and Tokyo.

​He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Korea (2001-2002) and the Federal Republic of Germany (2002-2005) with concurrent accreditation to Austria, Poland, Finland and the Czech Republic as well as the Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the UNIDO, UNODC and IAEA, Vienna.

​U Nyunt Maung Shein served in the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in different capacities as Director of Boundary Division, (1990-1992), Deputy Director-General (1996) and Director-General (1998-2000). He has represented his country at the Senior Official’s Meeting (SOM) and other related meetings of ASEAN including summits.

​He holds, a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Degree from the University of Yangon, MIPP (Master of International Public Policy) from SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., United States America and Diploma in French from the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon.

​He received several medals from the Government for his services; the highest being the Excellent Performance in Administration Medal (First Class) awarded to him by the year 2000.

​Since January 2013 he is serving as the Chairman of the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Myanmar ISIS), which is a think tank well known in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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