Ka cika wannan jumla: Ya rubuta littattafai huɗu. An haife shi ne a Dhaka, Bangladesh, inda mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a matsayin mishan na Cocin Ingila kuma mahaifiyarsa ta shafe shekaru hudu bayan barin Burma tare da iyalinta bayan da aka yi wa 'yan gudun hijirar Burma da' yan gudun hijirar Burma.
1962 juyin mulkin Burma. Ya girma a Ingila, ya sami BA a cikin Classics daga Jami'ar Oxford da MBA daga Harvard Business School.