Staff
Maureen Aung-Thwin
DirectorBurma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative
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.
