Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, UNAIDS Global Advocate

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi accepted the role as UNAIDS Global Advocate in November 2012. She is especially concerned that everybody should have access to life-saving HIV prevention and treatment services without fear of stigma or discrimination.

Daw Aung Suu Kyi is one of the founding members and current Chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spent decades under house arrest before being freed in 2010 and elected to Parliament in 2012. In 2016, she assumed the office of State Counsellor of Myanmar. Citing her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights, the Nobel Committee awarded Daw Aung San Suu Kyi the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds degrees from the University of Delhi, St. Hugh’s College at Oxford and from the University of London.