Saturday, November 12, 2011

Speaker Profile & Topic of Interest # 2


Aung Din, Executive Director, Co-Founder US Campaign for Burma

 He co-founded the Washington, DC-based U.S. Campaign for Burma, an umbrella group of Burmese dissidents in exile and American activists, in 2003.

He is also country representative of the Thai-Burma border-based “Assistance Association for
Political Prisoners-Burma” (AAPP). He has been quoted in hundreds of media articles, testified
before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Congressional Human Rights Caucus,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs and U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom.

He wrote opinion pieces in several newspapers, including Asia Time, Wall Street Journal,
Foreign Policy and the Irrawaddy. He traveled on speaking tours across the United States.
He received a Master Degree of International Service from American University’s School of
International Service in 2007, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Singapore
Institute of Management in 2000 and a Degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Rangoon
Institute of Technology in 1994.


His article on Irrawaddy -
Dam Lies and Statistics @   http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22195?

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