Backgrounder: Myanmar's president-elect, vice presidents-elect

U Htin Kyaw from Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the presidential election Tuesday through a secret ballot, thus becoming the country's new president for the next five-year term.

Meanwhile, the two other presidential candidates, U Myint Swe and U Henry Van Htee Yu, became the country's first vice president and second vice president, respectively.

The following are profiles of the president-elect and two presidents-elect:

U Htin Kyaw, 70, was born in Kunchangon town as son of noted writer Min Thu Wun.

A classmate with Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon Methodist High School, U Htin Kyaw attended the Yangon University of Economics in 1962 and graduated with a degree of Master of Economics.

As the first scholarship winning student of the Yangon Computer Department, he was sent for further study in Britain.

He resigned as a government employee in 1992 and joined the NLD, continuing writing under his father's pen name.

He is also a senior executive of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, a charitable organization named after Aung San Suu Kyi's mother.

U Myint Swe, current Yangon Region chief minister, is a former lieutenant-general.

Born in 1951, he is a Mon ethnic and served as commander of the country's Southeastern Regional Command and a member of the previous military government in 2001. He was later transferred to become Yangon Region commander and promoted to major-general.

He became the chief of military security affairs in 2004 and then chief of Bureau of Special Operation-5 in 2006.

U Henry Van Htee Yu, elected as a representative to the House of Nationalities from Chin state constituency-3, is an ex-military officer who had served in the armed forces for 20 years. He resigned from the military at the rank of major, after which he worked for the Ministry of Industry for nine years.

U Henry Van Htee Yu, who is a Chin national and a Christian, holds a diploma in law. Endit