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VIDEOS
"Burmese schoolteacher turned global statesman: A look at the life of U Thant ", CNN,
October 2025
"Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World", The Quincy Institute, 30 September 2025
"A New Vision for Global Leadership: Selecting the Next UN Secretary-General", International Peace Institute, September 23, 2025
"Does History Shape Destiny? The Case of Myanmar", United Nations University, 21 October 2020
"The Hidden History of Burma", Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, November 2019
"What Happened to Myanmar?", Asia Society, New York, November 2019
2016 Ca’ Foscari Lecture: “Historical Memory from Dictatorship to Democracy”, Venice, April 2016
2014 Paul Mellon Lecture: “Saving Yangon's Historic City Center”, New York, February 2014
“Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia”, Chicago, February 2014
PODCASTS
"A Brilliant New Biography Tells the Story of the Cold War Era UN Secretary General U-Thant", Global Dispatches, 17 November 2025
"Rethinking Humanitarianism | The UN’s 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems", The New Humanitarian, 18 September 2025
"What If...The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?", Past Present and Future, 18 August 2024
"Myanmar on the Brink", Financial Times, 20 May 2021
"Interview on Talking Politics", 10 February 2021
"Interview on Talking Politics", 28 June 2020
"Bringing History Back to Burma", Rachman Review, Financial Times, 22 October 2020
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