State Counsellor of Myanmar
| State Counsellor of Myanmar | |
|---|---|
| မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် | |
| Style | His/Her Excellency (formal) State Counsellor (informal) |
| Type | Head of government (de facto) |
| Status | Office abolished |
| Seat | Naypyidaw |
| Nominator | Assembly of the Union |
| Appointer | President |
| Term length | Equivalent to incumbent President (5 years, renewable once) |
| Inaugural holder | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| Formation | 6 April 2016 |
| Abolished | 1 February 2021 |
| Superseded by | Chairman of the State Administration Council |
| Website | www |
The State Counsellor of Myanmar (Burmese: နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်) was the de facto head of government of Myanmar, equivalent to a prime minister, from 2016 to 2021. The office was created in 2016 after Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won the 2015 Myanmar general election so she could lead the government despite being constitutionally ineligible for the presidency. The officeholder could “contact ministries, departments, organizations, associations and individuals” in an official capacity, while being accountable to parliament. The office was abolished by Aung San Suu Kyi's political adversary, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing, after he seized power from her in a 2021 military coup d'état.