Dagon Win Aung | |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1953 |
Birth Place: | Prome, Burma |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Occupation: | Businessman |
Organization: | Dagon International, UMFCCI |
Other Names: | Win Aung |
Spouse: | Moe Mya Mya (Yew Hoon See), b. 1958 |
Children: | Ei Hnin Pwint (Christabelle Aung)b. 1981 Thurein Aung (Christopher Aung) b. 1982 Ei Hnin Khine (Christina Aung), b. 1983 |
Education: | B.Sc Mechanical Engineering |
Dagon Win Aung (Burmese: ဒဂုံ ဝင်းအောင်) is a Burmese businessman and chairman of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI). He founded Dagon International, a construction company, in the 1990s, with Win Thein, a Myanmar Army captain.[1] He has since expanded his business empire to the timber trade, construction and import-export sectors.[2] Following Cyclone Nargis in 2008, his company was awarded with government contracts for various reconstruction projects in the Irrawaddy delta.[3]