He is also chairman of the UN Global Compact Network Myanmar[2] and the National Contact Person of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Responsible Business Conduct.

After graduating from Yangon University of Economics in 1965, Aung Tun Thet joined the Department of Commerce and Administrative Studies at the Institute as a faculty member in 1966.

In 1971, he was awarded the Colombo Plan State Scholarship and went to the United Kingdom for graduate studies.

Aung Tun Thet continued to serve at the Department of Commerce and Administrative Studies, undertaking teaching, research and publications.

The results of his research culminated in a book entitled “Burmese Entrepreneurship: Creative Response in the Colonial Economy”,[3] published by the University of Heidelberg.

In 1989, Aung Tun Thet was appointed the director-general of the newly established Department of Planning and Statistics, at the Ministry of Health.

Concurrently, he was appointed the secretary of National Health Committee, a supra ministerial body headed by de facto prime minister.

Shortly after, he was appointed the principal officer at the newly-opened UN Systems Staff College at Turin, Italy.

He was involved with the post-Nargis response supporting the Tri-partite Core Group activities in capacity building.

He taught at the department of international relations at Yangon University and was the external examiner for six Ph.D. candidates.

[4] In 2016, he served as a member of the Maungdaw Investigation Commission[5] which was formed to examine the incidents in Rakhine after the ARSA attacks October and November.

He was appointed as the Academic Advisory Board Member of Institute of Myanmar Studies at Yunnan University, China in 2019.

He is also serving as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of Korea Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Melbourne, Australia.

Aung Tun Thet has continued conducting online and virtual learning seminars on management, leadership, and sustainable development, with foreign and local universities.

Their daughter is now attending Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs, majoring in Development Practice.