TEDxUlaanbaatar - Oyun Sanjaasuren

Beginning as a geologist, Mrs. Oyun Sanjaasuren received her BA and M.Sc from Czechoslovakia and her Ph.D from Cambridge in England. She has worked on projects involving both Rio Tinto and the UNDP.

Mrs. Oyun has been a Member of Parliament of Mongolia continuously from 1998 until the present.

She was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008 and has been a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum since 2003. She is the only female party leader in Mongolia and ranks among the top ten most popular politicians in the country. She entered politics in 1998 to carry on the plans of her brother, Zorig, for political and economic reform after his assassination.