Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to speak at the Lowy Institute

The Lowy Institute is delighted to be hosting Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during her forthcoming visit to Australia.  On Thursday, 28 November Dr Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, will conduct a conversation with Daw Suu at the Institute’s Bligh Street Headquarters.

‘We are honoured that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has chosen the Lowy Institute for one of her few public engagements in Australia.  Daw Suu is a remarkable individual whose leadership in the struggle for democracy and human rights has changed Burma and inspired the world’, said Dr Fullilove.

‘I was privileged to meet with Daw Suu in Naypyidaw earlier this year and I look forward to welcoming her to the Lowy Institute’, he said.

Aung San Suu Kyi is chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Burma.  In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. She was released from house arrest in November 2010. In April 2012, Daw Suu was elected to the Pyithu Hluttaw, the lower house of  parliament, representing the constituency of Kawhmu. Her party won 43 of the 45 vacant seats in the lower house.