Nan Ni Ni Aye

Nan Ni Ni Aye
နန်းနီနီအေး
Nan Ni Ni Aye in 2026
4th Second Vice President of Myanmar
Assumed office
10 April 2026
Serving with Nyo Saw
PresidentMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byHenry Van Thio
Member of the Kayin State Hluttaw
In office
20 March 2026 – 3 April 2026
ConstituencyHpa-An № 2
Member of the Amyotha Hluttaw
In office
1 February 2016 – 1 February 2021
ConstituencyKayin State № 6
In office
31 January 2011 – 28 January 2016
ConstituencyKayin State № 6
Personal details
Born (1969-10-12) 12 October 1969
PartyUnion Solidarity and Development Party
Parent(s)Saw Boe Ni (father)
Nan Kyi Aye (mother)
Alma materHap-an College
Mawlamyine University
University of Computer Studies, Yangon
OccupationPolitician

Nan Ni Ni Aye (Burmese: နန်းနီနီအေး; born 12 October 1969) is a Burmese politician and former educator who has served as the fourth Second Vice President of Myanmar since April 2026. A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), she previously served in the Amyotha Hluttaw as the representative for Kayin State Constituency No. 6 for two consecutive terms.

Early life and education

Nan Ni Ni Aye was born on 12 October 1969 in Hpa-an, Kayin State.[1] Her father, Saw Boe Ni, was also a member of parliament from Kayin State during the era of the Revolutionary Council.[2] She studied zoology at Hap-an College and Mawlamyine University[1] and later pursued a master's degree in information science at the University of Computer Studies, Yangon.[3] Before entering politics, she served as a state school teacher and later as an assistant lecturer at her alma mater, the computer university, for a total of 17 years in public service.[2]

Political career

After the 2010 general election, Nan Ni Ni Aye became an MP in the Amyotha Hluttaw (Upper House) for Kayin State Constituency No. 6, which comprised Hpapun Township, a position to which she was re-elected in the 2015 general election.[2] She is the chair of the Union Solidarity and Development Party in Kayin State,[4] and was a member of the Amyotha Hluttaw's Bill Committee for two terms.[3] She competed for the Kayin State Hluttaw in the 2020 general election but lost;[2] however, she won a seat in the 2025–26 general election for the State Hluttaw for Hpa-an Constituency No. 2 as a proportional representative.[5]

On 30 March 2026, Nan Ni Ni Aye was nominated for the vice presidency by the Amyotha Hluttaw[6] and was elected on 31 March with 117 votes.[7] At the presidential election held at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 3 April 2026, she was elected as the second vice-president—after Min Aung Hlaing and Nyo Saw became the president and the first vice-president respectively—[8] the first woman to hold the office in the country's history.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "MP Profile". pyidaungsu.hluttaw.mm (in Burmese). Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "နန်းနီနီအေး- အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ အသွင်ပြောင်း အစိုးရက ပထမဆုံးအမျိုးသမီး ဒုသမ္မတ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 1 April 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်က ဒေါက်တာ မနမ်တူးဂျာနဲ့ နန်းနီနီအေးကို ဒုသမ္မတအမည်စာရင်း တင်သွင်း". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  4. ↑ "မှန်းဆထားကြသည့်အတိုင်း အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင် သမ္မတလောင်း ဖြစ်လာ". Myanmar Now. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "Myanmar junta chief elected vice president, moving closer to becoming civilian leader". The Japan Times. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "Myanmar paves way for junta chief to become civilian president". France 24. 30 March 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  7. ↑ "စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် အပါအဝင် ဒုသမ္မတသုံးဦးကို လွှတ်တော်သစ် ရွေးခြယ်တင်မြှောက်". RFA Burmese (in Burmese). 1 April 2026. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  8. ↑ "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်သမ္မတဖြစ်လာ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 3 April 2026. Retrieved 3 April 2026.