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, and the executive director of the Kanbawza Group, a major business conglomerate founded by her father,

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. Nang is the chair of I-KBZ Insurance, and the co-founder of the

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, one of the biggest contributors to social and community development in Myanmar which supports heath, education, poverty reduction and youth empowerment. In 2020, she won the ASEAN Entrepreneur Award in empowering women category for her outstanding contribution to deepening financial inclusion and equality in Myanmar.

Career

In 2008, she went to areas hit by

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to support cyclone victims. Visiting the camps and meeting the people that lost their homes and families has motivated her and her sister,

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, to establish the foundation – Brighter Future Myanmar (BFM), the social initiative arm of the KBZ Group. After studying in

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and

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, she became the fresh-faced executive director of KBZ Group at the age of 24. In 2017, she became a Deputy CEO of Kanbawza Bank. In 2018, she launched Myanmar's first bank-led mobile wallet

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