Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj or Elbegdorj Tsakhia (born March 30, 1963) is a Mongolian politician and the President of Mongolia, having won the election on May 24, 2009. The candidate of the Democratic Party, he became Mongolia’s first president to never have been a member of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the first to obtain a Western education. Elbegdorj was one of the leaders of the peaceful democratic revolution in 1990 that ended nearly 75 years of communist rule. Elbegdorj has been the Prime Minister of Mongolia twice, the Vice Speaker of Parliament once, the Majority Leader of the Parliament once, and a Member of Parliament four times. He is known as a pro-democracy, libertarian politician.
Elbegdorj is also the founder of Mongolia’s first independent newspaper.
Elbegdorj was born into a herding family in Zereg sum, Khovd on March 30, 1963. His father, M. Tsakhia, was a veteran of Mongolia’s border conflict with Manchuguo that resulted in the 1939 Battle of Khalkhyn Gol. Elbegdorj finished the sum’s eight-year school in 1979. Afterwards, his family moved to Erdenet, and he graduated from Erdenet’s No.1 ten-year school in 1981.
In 1981/82, he worked in the Erdenet copper combine as a machinist, and in 1982 was drafted into military service. For heading a Revolutionary Youth League group in the army, he was awarded with the possibility to study Journalism and Marxism-Leninism at he Military Political Institute of the USSR in Lviv (Ukraine) from 1983 on[3]. He graduated in 1988 and then worked for the army newspaper Ulaan Od (Red Star).
After his first term as prime minister, he spent a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Economic Institute, earning a Diploma in 2001. Then Elbegdorj studied with a full scholarship of Harvard University and graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government with a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in 2002.
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