Office of the President of Myanmar

On 4 September 2012, the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw approved an expansion of the office from two ministries into six to improve efficiencies on ongoing peace processes, preparations for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games and Burma's hosting of the 2014 ASEAN Summit.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/four-new-ministries-created-in-presidents-office.html|title=Four New Ministries Created in President's Office|last=Nyein Nyein|date=4 September 2012|work=The Irrawaddy|access-date=27 June 2015}} On 9 January 2013 Thein Sein appointed deputy Minister of Information Ye Htut as his office's first official spokesperson.{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/latest-news/burma-presidents-office-appoints-first-spokesperson.html|title=Burma President's Office Appoints First Spokesperson|date=9 January 2013|work=The Irrawaddy|access-date=27 June 2015}} The responsibility had been previously handled by Zaw Htay, the office's director. The office has since been reduced to one ministry under President Htin Kyaw. After President Htin Kyaw, Win Myint served as the President of Myanmar.

From 2016 to 2021, the State Counsellor is Aung San Suu Kyi. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s and won the 2020 elections but on 1 February 2021, she was detained by the military during the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

After the coup, SAC renamed the office as the Office of the State Administration Council Chairman.

Thein Sein has appointed several presidential advisory board during his term, including economics, legal, education, and religious affairs committees. A 9-member advisory board{{cite news|url=http://english.cntv.cn/20110504/105112.shtml|title=Myanmar president pledges to work for best of nation with advisory board|date=5 April 2011|work=CCTV|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707144909/http://english.cntv.cn/20110504/105112.shtml|url-status=dead}} was appointed on 19 April 2011, under Notification No. 1/2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.myanmarpresidentoffice.info/en/?q=briefing-room/news/2013/08/08/id-2522|title=Notification No. 53/2013|date=7 August 2013|work=Republic of the Union of Myanmar President Office |access-date=7 July 2015}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}} On 18 June 2014, the team was expanded to include religious affairs advisors, led by Myint Maung and Sein Win Aung, a former ambassador who is the father-in-law of Thein Sein's daughter.{{cite news|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/09/burma-clash-church-state-and-society|title=Burma: the Clash of Church, State, and Society|last=Mathieson|first=David Scott|date=9 July 2014|work=Human Rights Watch|access-date=7 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.myanmarpresidentoffice.info/en/?q=briefing-room/news/2014/06/19/id-3807|title=Notification (No. 40/2014)|date=18 June 2014|work=Republic of the Union of Myanmar Union Government |access-date=7 July 2015}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}{{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/burmese-president-appoints-new-advisors.html|title=Burmese President Appoints New Religious Advisors|last=Kyaw Hsu Mon|date=19 June 2014|work=The Irrawaddy|access-date=7 July 2015}}

As of 2014, the advisory teams and leaders included:

• Political affairs: Ko Ko Hlaing{{cite news|url=http://www.altsean.org/Research/Regime%20Watch/Executive/AdvisoryBoard.php|title=Advisory Board|date=9 September 2013|work=Alternative Asean Network on Burma|access-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205214820/http://www.altsean.org/Research/Regime%20Watch/Executive/AdvisoryBoard.php|archive-date=5 December 2014|url-status=dead}}
• Economic affairs: U Myint
• Legal affairs: Sit Aye
• Religious affairs: Myint Maung
• Education affairs: Yin Yin Nwe
• Health affairs: ?

• Union Minister Office
• President Staff Office
• Vice President (1) Staff Office
• Vice President (2) Staff Office
• Politics and Security Department
• Economic Department
• Social and Culture Department
• Administration and Finance Department
• Department of Houses
• Department of Chief Security Officer
• Research, Information and Complaints Department

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The President and Vice Presidents seated at President Office located at Presidential Palace.The Ministry of President's Office which serve the President is located at Office No(18), Naypyitaw.The Ministry Office is co-opened with Ministry of Union Government Office.{{cite news|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2018/11/26/175703.html|title=စစ်ဘက် အရာရှိဟောင်း ဦးမင်းသူ အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ရုံး ဝန်ကြီး ဖြစ်လာရန်ရှိ}} A new Ministry Office is under construction near the Union Supreme Court.{{cite news|url=https://thevoicejournal.com/archives/19560|title=နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံးဝန်ကြီးဌာနရုံး တည်ဆောက်ရန် ကျပ်ရှစ်ဘီလီယံကျော် ဘတ်ဂျက်တောင်း}} Office No. 18 is the office building of the State Peace and Development Council and the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Office during the previous SPDC government.

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• [http://www.president-office.gov.mm Official website]

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Category:Government ministries of Myanmar