Thiri Thant Mon

Biography

Thiri Thant Mon is the Managing Partner of Pegu Partners (www.pegupartners.com), a capital and strategy advisory firm based in Myanmar and the CEO of the Myanmar Institute of Directors (www.myanmariod.com). She has over 20 years of experience with top international and Myanmar financial Institutions. Before returning to Myanmar in 2013, she was a capital markets investment banker with Morgan Stanley in the UK covering financial institutions, and previously with Capital One in the US and UK where she managed credit risk forecasting. Upon her return, she was a member of the executive committee of Yoma Strategic Holdings where she was Head of Corporate Development. She was also the Myanmar country representative for the CDC Group, the UK government’s development finance institution.

Deeply passionate about education, empowerment and the transition of Myanmar into a vibrant member of the global community, Thiri supports initiatives related to corporate governance, institutional capacity building and attracting investment and intellectual capital into Myanmar. She serves as a member of the board of directors of Dawn Microfinance and the British Chambers of Commerce Myanmar and is a trustee for several charities including the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a Prince of Wales Charity. She is a Steering Committee Member of UK FCDO's Business for Shared Prosperity, a private sector development programme for Myanmar and a member of the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee for Myanmar led by the OECD. She also enables and shares voices and ideas of others by founding and organising TEDxYangon.

Thiri holds a degree in Economics from William & Mary and a MBA from the London Business School.