Maung Maung Soe | |
Office: | Mayor of Yangon |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Honorific-Prefix: | H.E. |
Native Name: | မောင်မောင်စိုး |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Term Start: | 5 April 2016 |
Term End: | 1 February 2021 |
Predecessor: | Hla Myint |
Birth Date: | 15 May 1951 |
Birth Place: | Magway |
Occupation: | Professor |
Maung Maung Soe (my|မောင်မောင်စိုး) is the mayor of Myanmar's largest city, Yangon. He was concurrently appointed as mayor and chairman of the Yangon City Development Committee on 5 April 2016.[1] [2] He is a retired professor at the Yangon Institute of Economics.[3]
Maung Maung Soe was born on 15 May 1951.[4] He earned a Bachelor of Economics degree at the then Rangoon Institute of Economics in 1973.[5]
In April 2016, controversy surrounding his academic credentials surfaced, because his master's and doctorate degrees were obtained from a diploma mill, the Christian International School of Theology (Manila). Further, his master's and doctorate degrees from the International Institute of Social Studies could not be independently verified.