Tin Tun Naing () is a Burmese activist and politician who currently serves as the

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union minister for the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry,

Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations The Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations (; abbreviated MIFER) is a ministry of the Government of Myanmar. It was created by president Win Myint. The Myanmar Armed Forces appointed Aung Naing Oo as the Minister for Investment a ...

and

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. He is also a member of

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for

Seikkyi Kanaungto Township Seikkyi Kanaungto Township ( ) is located on the southwestern bank of Yangon river across from downtown Yangon, Myanmar. It is the only township fully under the Yangon City Development Committee administration to be south of the Yangon River. T ...

and of the

Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (; abbreviated CRPH) is a Burmese legislative body in exile, representing a group of National League for Democracy lawmakers and members of parliament ousted in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. T ...

Early life and education

Tin Tun Naing was born on 30 January 1971 in ,

Myingyan District Myingyan District is a district of the Mandalay Region in central Myanmar. Townships The district contains the following townships: * Myingyan Township *Taungtha Township * Natogyi Township At one point, Myingyan District also included Kyaukpad ...

Mandalay Region Mandalay Region (, ; formerly Mandalay Division) is an administrative divisions of Myanmar, administrative division of Myanmar. It is located in the center of the country, bordering Sagaing Region and Magway Region to the west, Shan State to the ...

. He conferred his bachelor's degree in

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from Mandalay Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed Executive MBA program from

Yangon Institute of Economics The Yangon University of Economics (formerly the Institute of Economics, Yangon; ) is the finest university of economics and business in Myanmar. Founded as the Section of Economics of Yangon University in 1924, the section became an independe ...

Political career

In the

2015 Myanmar general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2015, with the National League for Democracy winning a supermajority of seats in the combined national parliament. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by the mili ...

, Tin Tun Naing contested in Seikkyi Kanaungto Township constituency for

Pyithu Hluttaw The Pyithu Hluttaw (, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of which 330 are directly elected through the first-past-the ...

, from the

National League for Democracy The National League for Democracy (, ; Abbreviation, abbr. NLD; Burmese abbr. ဒီချုပ်) is a deregistered liberal democratic political party in Myanmar (formerly Burma). It became the country's ruling party after a landslide victo ...

, and won a seat by 8,392 votes. In the

2020 Myanmar general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 8 November 2020. Voting occurred in all constituencies, excluding seats appointed by or reserved for the military, to elect members to both the upper house — the Amyotha Hluttaw (the House of Nation ...

, he was re-elected as an MP for Seikkyi Kanaungto Township but was not allowed to assume his seat due to the military coup. On 5 February 2021, in the aftermath of the

2021 Myanmar coup d'état A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when Elections in Myanmar, democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's milita ...

, he became a member of the

. On 2 March 2021, he was appointed by CRPH as the acting union minister for the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and the Ministry of Commerce.

References

{{reflist Living people Burmese activists National League for Democracy politicians People from Mandalay Region 1971 births 21st-century Burmese politicians