Kung Za Hmunng @ Win Hlaing Oo (Joseph) is an entrepreneur, humanitarian worker and educator with an active interest in promoting the role and responsibility of business organizations in Myanmar’s development.

He holds L.L.B. from Yadarnapon University. He finished Christian Philosophy in the Catholic Institute of Philosophy in 2000 and he studied Sacred Theology in 2001 in the Catholic Major Seminary, Yangon. In 2010, he studied political science in the University of York, UK. Now he holds a Master degree of Business Administration, Assumption University of Thailand in Yangon Campus, Myanmar.

He is now the founding director of CAD (Community Agency for Rural Development) which is Myanmar based Non-governmental Organization since 2004. Under his leadership, there are about 50 staffs who are spearheading community development programs (agriculture, farmer’s capacity building, community drinking water, weir construction, irrigation facilities, vocational trainings for women and girls, community health education, road and bridge construction, school construction, seed and farming tools support to farmers, researchers, civic education and community based nursery schools) across the remote country where neither UN agency nor International NGO is existent at all. To add, he is also a publisher and chief-editor of Gloria News Journal in Burmese since 2013. This media is a monthly journal, streamlining on Global Catholic news and teachings on moral, social and spiritual issues, educating civil and religious laws to readers. Finally, he is also the founding principle of Joseph Education Institute (JEI) since 2015.This institute is providing theological education to lay people in Myanmar and management training to people who are also builders of the societies and Myanmar. During these two years, there are already 154 students who are doing a distant theological studies. The final plan is to open a residential program of Joseph University in 20 years.