Founder and CEOMyanmar Innovative Life Sciences
Kyaw Thu Htet is the founder and CEO of Myanmar Innovative Life Sciences (MILS), an 11-year-old social enterprise based in Myanmar (Burma) helping food producers including farmers produce safer, better-quality products more sustainably and improve their market access. Kyaw is also the founder and director at Center of Sustainable Agri-food Initiative Development (CSAID), a multi-stakeholder collaboration platform for resilient food systems. He is also chairing the executive board of Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) Myanmar convened by UN World Food Program (WFP) and is a member of Strategic Advisory Group of UN Nutrition. He was an Aspen Ideas Festival Fellow in 2023, Asia-Pacific Leader selected by The Obama Foundation in 2022 and awarded as ASEAN Under 40 during ASEAN Business Award in 2023. Kyaw is a TEDx speaker and appeared in many regional and global events including side events of UN Food Systems Summit 2021, COP28, ASEAN Climate Summit and TED Countdown Summit 2023.