Secretary-General U Thant

Portrait of U Thant, who was unanimously appointed by the United Nations General Assembly on 30 November 1962 as Secretary-General of the United Nations for a term to extend to 1966.
Born at Pantanaw, Burma, on 22 January 1909, Secretary-General U Thant was educated at the National High School in Pantanaw and at the University College, Rangoon. He served as Adviser to U Nu, then the Prime Minister of Burma, at the first Colombo Prime Minister's Conference of Colombo; and the Second held at Bogor, Indonesia, at the Asian-African Conference Aligned Nations, in 1961. From 1957 up to the time of his appointment in 1961 as Acting Secretary-General, U Thant was Burma's Permanent Representative to the UN, with the rank of Ambassador, and had been Chairman of the Burmese delegation at each session of the UN General Assembly since volume History of Post-War Burma (1961).