Kyaw Kyaw is the director of the Political Defiance Committee of the National Council of the Union of Burma, which is an umbrella group of Burmese organizations based on the Thai-Burma border. He was also a founding member of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), which was composed of students who fled Burma after playing key roles in the 1988 uprising.
Born in 1965 in Upper Burma and brought up in Rangoon, Kyaw Kyaw completed his bachelor’s degree in Geology in 1987. He was a post graduate student in the Applied Geology Department of Rangoon University when he took part in the democratic uprising in 1988.