Khin Thandar Htay

Director for Southeast Asia, Women in News, Myanmar

Thandar leads the programmes and activities for WIN SEA as Director for the region. She previously served as Country Lead for Myanmar in the past years.Thandar is a marketing and communications professional previously led a commercial teamof one of the leading media in Myanmar, Frontier Myanmar. In parallel, she also led the Black Knight Marketing and Communication Agency that is a sister company of Frontier Myanmar in collaborating with a number of top international clients in Myanmar.

Before joining Frontier Myanmar, she worked at the several companies such as Mago Marketing Services as Business Development Manager, Mizzima Media Group as Sales Director, The Myanmar Times from several roles as National Sales Director, HR Manager and Senior Receptionist. Before pursuing a career that spanned advertising, publishing, customer service and marketing communications she served Qatar Airways as senior flight attendant.Thandar is passionate about supporting community development focusing on women. One of the highlight projects is called Women 4 Women 2020 that is founded with 9 women to support underprivileged sex workers who were hit badly during COVID-19 pandemic.

Thandar holds a mathematics degree from Myanmar with other several marketing courses certificates.