Biography

Aung Aung is a regular contributor to the Myanmar-language press under the pen-name Aung Aung IR. He obtained his master’s degrees in international relations, and-peace and-conflict resolutions from KDI School of Public Policy and-Management in South Korea in 2006 and-from Duke University in the United States in 2012. He is also a Rotary Peace Fellow. In Myanmar, he worked for the Internal Revenue Department (IRD) (1993-1998), the Myanmar Investment and-Commercial Bank (MICB) (1998-2008), Save the Children International (SCI) (2008-2009), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (2011-2012), the United Nations Education, Science and-Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2013) and-The Delegation of European Union in Myanmar (EU) (2014-2019). He also served as guest researcher at the Institute for Security Development Policy (ISDP) in Sweden in 2012 and-as a visiting fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore in 2018. At ISDP, his research focused on the role of political parties in promoting democracy in Myanmar, and-at ISEAS, his research focused on upcoming 2020 Myanmar’s general elections. At CSEAS, his research will focus on international politics of the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar.