Ye Htut

Ye Htut
Minister for Information of Myanmar
In office
1 August 2014 – 30 March 2016
PresidentThein Sein
Preceded byAung Kyi
Succeeded byPe Myint
Spokesperson for the President
In office
February 2013 – 30 March 2016
Deputy Minister of Information of Myanmar
In office
31 August 2012 – 1 August 2014
Preceded bySoe Win
Deputy Director General/Director General at the Ministry of Information
In office
2005 – 31 August 2012
Succeeded byTint Swe
Personal details
Born1959 (1959) (age 65)
NationalityMyanmar
Political partyUnion Solidarity and Development Party
SpouseKhin Sandar Tun
ResidenceNaypyidaw
OccupationMilitary Personnel, Civil Servant, Academics
Websitewww.facebook.com/ye.htut.988
Military service
AllegianceMyanmar
Branch/serviceMyanmar Army
Years of service1977-2005
Rank Lieutenant Colonel

Ye Htut (Burmese: ရဲထွဋ်, [jɛ́ tʰʊʔ]) is a Burmese military officer who previously served as presidential spokesman from 2013 to 2016 and later as minister for the Ministry of Information (Myanmar) from 2014 to 2016 in the Thein Sein's Cabinet.[1] He left the office in 2016 and worked as visiting senior research fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore until July 2019.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Facebook fan Ye Htut named presidential spokesman". The Nation. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. ^ Kean, Thomas. "Ye Htut: 'Without domestic consensus, there's no workable Rakhine solution'". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  3. ^ "Former Information Minister Surprised by USDP Membership Appointment". The Irrawaddy. 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2019-12-11.