Maung Maung Soe ( my, မောင်မောင်စိုး) is the mayor of

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

's largest city,

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

. He was concurrently appointed as mayor and chairman of the

Yangon City Development Committee Yangon City Development Committee ( my, ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော် စည်ပင်သာယာရေး ကော်မတီ, abbreviated YCDC) is the administrative body of Yangon, the largest city and former capital of M ...

on 5 April 2016. He is a retired professor at the

Yangon Institute of Economics The Yangon University of Economics (formerly the Institute of Economics, Yangon; my, ရန်ကုန် စီးပွားရေး တက္ကသိုလ် ) is the finest university of economics and business in Myanmar. Founded as ...

. Maung Maung Soe was born on 15 May 1951. He earned a Bachelor of Economics degree at the then Rangoon Institute of Economics in 1973. In April 2016, controversy surrounding his academic credentials surfaced, because his master's and doctorate degrees were obtained from a diploma mill, the Christian International School of Theology (

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

). Further, his master's and doctorate degrees from the

International Institute of Social Studies The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam is an independent and international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science. ISS was established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Neth ...

could not be independently verified.

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