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Thant Myint-U ((ビルマ語: သန့်မြင့်ဦး) (:θa̰ɴ mjɪ̰ɴ ʔú); born 31 January 1966) is a Burmese-American historian, a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an adviser to the President of Myanmar, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic Yangon cityscape thrown a lifeline )〕 He authored two bestselling and critically acclaimed books, ''The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma''〔See for example John Lancaster, "Walled Off: Can Burma Escape Its History?", ''The New Yorker'', 11 December 2006 Nicholas Shakespeare, "Burma: A Poisoned Shangri-la", ''The Sunday Telegraph'', 11 March 2007 Su Lin Lewis, "Meteoric Fall", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 13 April 2007.〕 and ''Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia''〔Siddhartha Deb, "Where China Meets India", ''The Guardian'', 19 August 2011〕 He was named by the Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "100 Leading Global Thinkers" of 2013 and by ''Prospect Magazine'' as one of 50 "World Thinkers" of 2014.〔(Profile ), foreignpolicy.com; accessed 2 July 2015.〕〔(Profile ), prospectmagazine.co.uk; accessed 2 July 2015.〕 He was voted 15th in Prospect Magazine's subsequent poll of "World's Leading Thinkers"〔("World's Leading Thinkers" ), prospectmagazine.co.uk; accessed 2 July 2015.〕 ==Early life and education== Thant Myint-U was born in New York City to Burmese parents and is the grandson of former Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant. He has three sisters.〔Myint-U, Thant. ''The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma'' (preface).〕 His father, Tyn Myint-U, is a mathematics professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He was educated at Harvard University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in History from Cambridge University in 1996 , MA in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and BA in Government and Economics from Harvard University . From 1994-99 he was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,〔(Profile ), trin-webtest.trin.cam.ac.uk; accessed 2 July 2015.〕 where he taught Asian and British imperial history. He lectured extensively, including at Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, London University, and the Australian National University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thant Myint-U」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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