Biography
Dr. Myint Zaw earned his PhD in resources, environment and development from Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University (ANU), and an MA degree in InternationalDevelopment from Chulalongkorn University of Thailand. He is an environmental campaigner,
civil society activist and writer. He published 12 books in Burmese on environment, civic movement and peace issues. He was a trainer on environmental journalism before he received the UC Berkeley Journalism fellowship in 2007. He was 2015 recipient of the prestigious Goldman
Environmental Prize for Asia, and the 2024 recipient of the Niwano Peace Visionary Award. Currently he is engaging in educational initiatives for civil society activists and public awareness campaigns on peace and environment. He is the national coordinator-collaborator of the ISS/EUR-
based ERC-funded RRUSHES-5 project led by Jun Borras.
