In this 

Burmese name, the given name is Aung San Suu Kyi. There is no family name.

 Her Excellency

 AC Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi

အောင်ဆန်းစု ကြည်

Aung San Suu Kyi in the European Parliament in Strasbourg,

France, in October 2013

State Counsellor of Myanmar

In office

6 April 2016 – 1 February 2021

President Htin Kyaw

Win Myint

Preceded by Office established

Succeeded by Min Aung Hlaing

(as Chairman of the State Administration

 Council)

20th Minister of Foreign Affairs

In office

30 March 2016 – 1 February 2021

President Htin Kyaw

Win Myint

Preceded by Wunna Maung Lwin

Succeeded by Wunna Maung Lwin

Chairperson of the National League for Democracy

Incumbent

Assumed office

13 December 2011

Preceded by Aung Shwe

Leader of the Opposition

In office

2 May 2012 – 29 January 2016

President Thein Sein

Preceded by Sai Hla Kyaw

Succeeded by Thein Sein

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Ministerial offices
2016–2021

General Secretary of the National League for Democracy

In office

27 September 1988 – 13 December 2011

Preceded by Office established

Succeeded by Office abolished

Member of the Burmese House of Representatives

for Kawhmu

In office

2 May 2012 – 30 March 2016

Preceded by Soe Tint

Succeeded by Vacant

Majority 46,73 (71.38%)

Personal details

Born 19 June 1945 (age 77)

Rangoon, British Burma

Political party National League for Democracy

Michael Aris
Spouse

(m. 1972; died 1999)

Children 2, including Alexander Aris

Parent(s) Aung San (father)

Khin Kyi (mother)

Relatives Aung San Oo (brother)

Ba Win (uncle)

Sein Win (cousin)

Residence 54 University Avenue

Education University of Delhi (BA)

 St Hugh's College, Oxford (BA)

SOAS University of London (MPhil) [1]

Awards Rafto Prize

Sakharov Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

Jawaharlal Nehru Award

International Simón Bolívar Prize

Olof Palme Prize

Bhagwan Mahavir World Peace

Congressional Gold Medal

Signature

Aung San Suu Kyi's voice

0:33

from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 27 January 2013[2]

This article is part of

a series about

Aung San Suu Kyi

State Counsellor of Myanmar

 State Counsellor
 Htin Kyaw I
 Rohingya
 Coup d'état

President of National League for Democracy

 NLD
 8888 Uprising
 Depayin massacre
 Saffron Revolution
 Spring Revolution
 Leader of the Opposition

 State Peace and Development Council

 2011–15 Political Reforms
 Honours

House Arrest

 Trespasser Incidents
 54 University Avenue

General Elections

 1990
 2012
 2015
 2020

Books

 Freedom from Fear

 Letters from Burma

Popular culture

 Beyond Rangoon
 The Lady

Family

 Aung San (father)
 Khin Kyi (mother)
 Michael Aris (husband)
 Alexander Aris (son)
 Aung San Oo (brother)
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Aung San Suu Kyi AC[3] (/aʊŋ ˌsɑːn suː ˈtʃiː/;[4] Burmese: အောင်ဆန်းစု ကြည်; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu.

krany Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɰ̃ sʰáɰ̃ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat,
author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of
Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has
served as the chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since 2011, having been the
general secretary from 1988 to 2011. [5][6] She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military
junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.
The youngest daughter of Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi,
Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, British Burma. After graduating from the University of
Delhi in 1964 and St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three
years. She married Michael Aris in 1972, with whom she had two children.
Aung San Suu Kyi rose to prominence in the 8888 Uprising of 8 August 1988 and became the
General Secretary of the NLD, which she had newly formed with the help of several retired army
officials who criticized the military junta. In the 1990 elections, NLD won 81% of the seats in
Parliament, but the results were nullified, as the military government (the State Peace and
Development Council – SPDC) refused to hand over power, resulting in an international outcry. She
had been detained before the elections and remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21
years from 1989 to 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.[7] In
1999, Time magazine named her one of the "Children of Gandhi" and his spiritual heir
to nonviolence.[8] She survived an assassination attempt in the 2003 Depayin massacre when at
least 70 people associated with the NLD were killed. [9]
Her party boycotted the 2010 elections, resulting in a decisive victory for the military-backed Union
Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Aung San Suu Kyi became a Pyithu Hluttaw MP while
her party won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the 2012 by-elections. In the 2015 elections, her party
won a landslide victory, taking 86% of the seats in the Assembly of the Union—well more than the
67% supermajority needed to ensure that its preferred candidates were
elected president and second vice president in the presidential electoral college. Although she was
prohibited from becoming the president due to a clause in the constitution—her late husband and
children are foreign citizens—she assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor of Myanmar,
a role akin to a prime minister or a head of government.
When she ascended to the office of state counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi drew criticism from several
countries, organisations and figures over Myanmar's inaction in response to the genocide of the
Rohingya people in Rakhine State and refusal to acknowledge that Myanmar's military has
committed massacres.[10][11][12][13][14] Under her leadership, Myanmar also drew criticism for prosecutions
of journalists.[15] In 2019, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in the International Court of Justice where she
defended the Burmese military against allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.[16]
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had won the November 2020 Myanmar general election, was
arrested on 1 February 2021 following a coup d'état that returned the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed
Forces) to power and sparked protests across the country. Several charges were filed against her,
and on 6 December 2021, she was sentenced to four years in prison on two of them. Later, on 10
January 2022, she was sentenced to an additional four years on another set of charges. [17] By 12
October 2022, she had been convicted to 26 years imprisonment on ten charges in total, including
five corruption charges.[18] The United Nations, most European countries, and the United States
condemned the arrests, trials, and sentences as politically motivated. [19]