Win Shein | |
Native Name Lang: | my |
Office: | Minister for Finance and Revenue |
Term Start: | 1 February 2021 |
President: | Myint Swe (acting) |
Primeminister: | Min Aung Hlaing |
Predecessor: | Soe Win |
Term Start1: | 7 September 2012 |
Term End1: | 30 March 2016 |
President1: | Thein Sein |
Predecessor1: | Hla Tun |
Successor1: | Kyaw Win |
Office2: | Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2023 |
President2: | Myint Swe (acting) |
Primeminister2: | Min Aung Hlaing |
Alongside2: | Soe Win, Tin Aung San, Mya Tun Oo, and Than Swe |
Office3: | Deputy Minister for Finance and Revenue |
Term Start3: | July 2012 |
Term End3: | September 2012 |
President3: | Thein Sein |
Office4: | Deputy Minister for Transportation |
Term Start4: | March 2011 |
Term End4: | July 2012 |
President4: | Thein Sein |
Cabinet: | Min Aung Hlaing's military cabinet |
Birth Place: | Mandalay, Burma |
Nationality: | Burmese |
Allegiance: | Myanmar |
Branch: | Myanmar Navy |
Serviceyears: | - 2010 |
Rank: | Commodore |
Win Shein (my|ဝင်းရှိန်; born 1 August 1958 in Mandalay) is a former military officer and the incumbent Minister for Finance.
From May 2013 to May 2014, he also served as chairman of the Myanmar Investment Commission.[1] Win Shein previously served as a Deputy Minister of Transportation from March 2011 to July 2012.[2] [3] He was Deputy Minister for Finance and Revenue from July to September 2012.[4] He was a Myanmar Ambassador to Cambodia[5] and was also nominated as Ambassador to France just before he was appointed as Deputy Minister. In the aftermath of the military-led 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, the Myanmar Armed Forces appointed Win Shein as the Minister for Finance effective 1 February 2021.[6]
He also served as a Commodore, as part of the Myanmar Navy's Naval Training Headquarters.[3]
Win Shein's father, San Shein, was formerly a member of the Burma Socialist Programme Party's central executive committee.[7]