He also had multiple roles as Chairperson of Thilawa Special Economic Zone's Management Committee of Myanmar, member of National Economic Coordination Committee (NECC) and Secretary of the Development Assistance Coordination Unit (DACU) that were chaired by the State Counsellor Aung San Su Kyi, until the Myanmar military launched the coup on 1 February 2021.
Alongside them, the junta unfairly prosecuted and imprisoned numerous other Cabinet members of the democratically elected civilian government, politicians, and student activists under various charges.
[1] However, the former de facto Head of State, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains in prison facing many other spurious legal charges.
Before he held the aforementioned positions, he served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar until July 2017, Deputy Minister for National Planning and Economic Development from June 2012 to July 2013 and Economics Advisor to President Thein Sein from April 2011 to June 2012.
He also worked for several multinational organizations in the financial, oil and gas sectors including Lazard, Deutsche, Peregrine, and Shell.