Win Shein

Win Shein
ဝင်းရှိန်
Minister for Finance and Revenue
In office 7 September 2012 – 30 March 2016
President	Thein Sein
Preceded by	Hla Tun
Succeeded by	Kyaw Win
Deputy Minister for Finance and Revenue
In office July 2012 – September 2012
President	Thein Sein
Deputy Minister for Transportation
In office March 2011 – July 2012
President	Thein Sein
Personal details
Born	Burma
Nationality	Burmese
Military service
Allegiance	Myanmar
Service/branch	Myanmar Navy
Years of service	- 2010
Rank	Commodore

Win Shein (Burmese: ဝင်းရှိန်) is a former 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 an Myanmar Ambassador to Cambodia and was also nominated as Ambassador to France just before he was appointed as Deputy Minister.

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.^[5]

References

1. "Politics/ Inside Burma". Shan Herald Agency for News. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
2. "Myanmar government reshuffled". The Nation. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
3. "Burma: Comparison of New Government Officials with the Council of the European Union List of Sanctioned Regime Members". Global Justice Center. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
4. "Cabinet". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
5. Zay Thu (27 August 2014). "ဒီမိုကရေစီ အစိုးရတွင်လည်း မဆလလူကြီးများ၏ သားသမီးများသာ ရာထူးကြီးများ ရယူထား". Tomorrow (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 July 2015.