| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency Mahn |
| Win Khaing Than | |
| Native Name Lang: | my |
| Office: | Prime Minister of the National Unity Government of Myanmar |
| Term Start: | 16 April 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Office established |
| President: | Duwa Lashi La (acting) |
| Office1: | Vice President and Acting President in the Acting Cabinet of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw |
| Term Start1: | 9 March 2021 |
| Term End1: | 16 April 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Office established |
| Successor1: | Duwa Lashi La (NUG) |
| Order2: | 2nd |
| Office2: | Speaker of the House of Nationalities |
| Term Start2: | 3 February 2016 |
| Term End2: | 31 January 2021 |
| Deputy2: | Aye Thar Aung |
| Predecessor2: | Khin Aung Myint |
| Office3: | 3rd Speaker of the Assembly of the Union |
| Term Start3: | 8 February 2016 |
| Term End3: | 1 August 2018 |
| Deputy3: | Aye Thar Aung |
| Predecessor3: | Shwe Mann |
| Successor3: | T Khun Myat |
| Order4: | Amyotha Hluttaw MP |
| Constituency4: | Kayin State No. 8 Myawaddy Township |
| Term Start4: | 3 February 2016 |
| Term End4: | 1 February 2021 |
| Party: | National League for Democracy |
| Birth Date: | 23 April 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Division, Burma (now Myanmar) |
| Nationality: | Burmese |
| Alma Mater: | Rangoon Arts and Science University |
| Parents: | Mahn Than Shein, Nant Khin Yee Khaing |
| Relations: | Mahn Ba Khaing (Grandfather) |
| Spouse: | Nant Kyin Kyi |
| Occupation: | Politician, lawyer |
Mahn Win Khaing Than (Burmese: မန်းဝင်းခိုင်သန်း in Burmese pronounced as /máɴ wɪ́ɴ kʰàɪɴ θáɴ/ and also spelled Mahn Win Khine Than or Mann Win Khaing Thann) is a Myanmar politician and lawyer who is serving as the Prime Minister of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, a government in exile. An ethnic Karen, he served as the Speaker of the Assembly of the Union from 2016 to 2018 and the Speaker of the House of Nationalities on behalf of Kayin State from 2016 until his removal from office in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
Mahn Win Khaing Than was born on 23 April 1952 in Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Division. He is an ethnic Karen, a Christian, and also the grandson of Mahn Ba Khaing. Mahn Ba Khaing served as Minister for Industry and Minister for Labor in the pre-independence cabinet of the AFPFL government; and was assassinated alongside Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Kyi, on 19 July 1947 in the Secretariat, Yangon.[1] [2] Mahn Win Khaing Than graduated from the Rangoon Arts and Science University with a law degree in 1975.
He formerly served as the secretary of the Karen Literature and Culture Association, and joined the Union Karen League in 1990, which contested in the elections that same year. Then, he joined the National League for Democracy in 2013 and contested for the first time in the 2015 elections.[3] In the 2015 election, he contested and won the Kayin State No. 8 constituency for a seat in the country's upper house.[4] [5] [6]
Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état on 1 February, Mahn Win Khaing Than went into hiding with fellow senior National League for Democracy officials who also escaped arrest.[7]
On 9 March 2021,[8] Mahn Win Khaing Than was named Acting Vice-President of Myanmar by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, a government in exile[9] [10] [11] composed of ousted National League for Democracy lawmakers who won seats in the 2020 elections.
On 16 April 2021, Mahn Win Khaing Than was appointed as the Prime Minister of Myanmar (not as State Counsellor of Myanmar) by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw as part of the newly-formed National Unity Government.[12]