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Pany Yathotou (Lao: ປານີ ຢາທໍ່ຕູ້; born 18 February 1951) is a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

She was the chairwoman and governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R., the country's central bank, from 1988 until 1997.

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Yathotou later joined the National Assembly in 1998. She served as the President of the National Assembly of Laos from 2010 to 2021. Yathotou is a part of Laos' Hmong ethnicity. She is the first woman to be elected as Vice President of Laos.

Early life

Yathotou was born on 18 February 1951 in Xiangkhouang Province.

Her father, Ya Tho Thu, was a Hmong military commander in the Pathet Lao. In 1959, she moved to North Vietnam where she studied primary and secondary school, and in 1975, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from Hanoi.

Political career

After her return to Laos, she joined the Vientiane Foreign Trade Bank in 1976 as the deputy director of the bank's budget department.

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