U Nyun

Myanmar's distinguished civil servant: U Nyun

U Nyun (pictured here) was one of Myanmar's most distinguished public servants. He was born on 20 January 1910 and was educated at Rangoon, Oxford and London Universities. He served in the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and then as a senior civil servant in the government of independent Burma, before joining the United Nations in 1953. From 1959-1973 he was the Executive Secretary of UN ECAFE (now ESCAP), working directly under Secretaries-General Dag Hammarskjold and U Thant. U Nyun was...