BURMESE democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Oxford next month, Oxford University confirmed yesterday.

The chairman of the Burmese National League for Democracy, also known as Daw Suu, will receive an honorary doctorate in civil law at the university’s Encaenia ceremony on Wednesday, June 20.

She was originally given the honour in 1993 but had been unable to receive it in person because she has been under house detention in her native country for much of the past 20 years.

Next month will be her first trip to the UK since she left Oxford for Burma in June, 1988.

Daw Suu studied philosophy, politics and economics at St Hugh’s College from 1964 to 1967, and could visit the college.

After graduating, she worked in New York and Bhutan, before settling in Oxford with her husband, the Tibet scholar Michael Aris. She returned to Burma initially to care for her sick mother.

Mr Aris died of cancer at the age of 53 in 1999. The couple had two sons.

Daw Suu was released from house arrest in November 2010 and in April was elected to parliament.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Andrew Hamilton said: “We are delighted that Daw Suu is finally able to return to the university.”