Theingi Myint

Dr.Theingi Myint is an Agricultural Economist working in the field of rural development especially agricultural marketing, project planning and management and socioeconomic impact assessment. She has a Ph.D in Agricultural Economics within the Sandwich Program of Justus Liegburg University, Giessen, Germany and Yezin Agricultural University. For her Ph.D., her research was “Myanmar Rice Market: Market Integration and Price Causality”. She started her career in Yezin Agricultural University since 1992. She has more than 33 years of work experiences in university and rural development projects with some International Organizations such as ICRISAT, SEARCA, IRRI, CSEAS-Kyoto University, ACIAR, FAO, World Bank, ADB, ERIA, IDE-Jetro, HELVETAS, JICA, KOICA and ICMOD. She has gained research experiences in agricultural marketing, socioeconomic impact assessment, sustainable livelihood development, sustainable agricultural development, labor migration, and gender. She has done as a Coordinator of ACIAR Project: “Strengthening Institutional Capacity, Extension Services and Rural Livelihoods in the Central Dry Zone and Ayeyarwady Delta Regions of Myanmar” and "Increasing Productivity of Legume-based Farming Systems in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar” from 2014 up to 2017. At the meantime, she is working as Professor and Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, Yezin Agricultural University, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. She is currently working the research on household food systems, food waste management, food security and perceptions of consumers, consumption patterns, food system transformation in Myanmar after the getting COVID 19 shocks since 2019 onward. During 2023- 2026, she works the “Spring Outlook Program of ICIMOD as an external expert for co-lead author for the Spring Management in HKH region report.