Thant Myint-U is an historian, a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, an adviser to the President of Myanmar, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust. He is also the author two bestselling and critically acclaimed books, The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma and Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia. He was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the "100 Leading Global Thinkers" of 2013 and by Prospect Magazine as one of 50 "World Thinkers" of 2014. He was voted 15th in Prospect Magazine's subsequent poll of "World's Leading Thinkers" 

January 31st, 1966 in New York City (Age 58)