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Maureen Aung-Thwin

Director

Maureen Aung-Thwin is director of the Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative at the Open Society Institute. Aung-Thwin, who was born in Burma, attended Northwestern University in Illinois and New York University.

She is on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch and a trustee of the Burma Studies Foundation which oversees the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University. She has also worked as a freelance journalist based in Asia and as program staff of the Asia Society in New York City.

Related Information

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Released from Detention in Burma
November 15, 2010
The Open Society Foundations welcome the release of Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Salman Rushdie and Acclaimed Authors Join Burmese Monks One Year After Brutal Crackdown
Press Release
September 22,2008
Authors will read from banned texts at this event cosponsored by OSI, to benefit Burmese monks and victims of the recent cyclone.

Open Society Institute Denounces Burmese Junta's Slow Response to Cyclone Nargis
May 16, 2008
The Open Society Institute calls on Burma's military rulers to lift their unjustifiable restrictions on the movement of aid organizations in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.

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