Get to know KHALIUNGOO Ganbat (Hobby: 2000-2006), the Urban Governance Project Manager at The Asia Foundation in Mongolia, the first Mongolian Fulbright Scholar at Vanderbilt, and a Board Member at Mongolian Association of State Alumni (MASA) & Mongolian Young Leaders Network (MYLN). Previously, she worked at Oyu Tolgoi LLC and Centerra Gold Mongolia LLC. Fluent in Mongolian and English, Khaliungoo has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from KDU College, Malaysia, and a Master’s degree in Economic Development from Vanderbilt University, USA, with a Fulbright scholarship.
Get to know ENEREL Otgonbayar (Hobby: 2005-2007), the Founder of InnovStyle a mompreneur, and the Brand Ambassador of L.K. Bennett, Karen Millen, Salamander, Lauma Lingerie, Charles & Keith, and Pedro in Mongolia. Read how she brought international brands to Mongolia and how she is educating the local fashion market through her InnovStyle magazine. Fluent in Mongolian and English, she studied at Webster University of London, UK.
Get to know Anar Amarjargal (Hobby: 1996-2001), the COO of Mongolian Mortgage Corporation (“MIK”), which raised $300M bond on international capital market for Mongolia. Anar is also the Independent Board Member of Mongolian Stock Exchange, and Executive Director of Amarjargal Foundation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Previously, Anar worked at Novel Investments Limited, SkyPath Partners LLC, XacBank and MCS Coca Cola. Fluent in Mongolian and English, he has a bachelor's degree in Economics from University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Get to know Onon Bayasgalan (Hobby: 1998-2001) who has become the first Gates Cambridge Scholar from Mongolia to study Conservation Leadership at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she worked on cashmere value chain project at the World Conservation Society; initiated Environmental Fellowship Program; and is known for her “Little Air” project against air pollution in Ulaanbaatar. Onon graduated from Whitman College and Yale University with full scholarships in environmental economics and environmental management respectively.
Get to know our first principal and founder of Hobby School, Oyuntsetseg Durvuljin. Trilingual in Mongolian, Russian and English, Oyuntsetseg is an alumna of College of Music and Dance of Mongolia and Central Music School of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia. She received her PhD in Art Studies from Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia.
Get to know Samadi Batbold (Hobby: 2000-2001), the Executive Vice President of Altai Holding LLC, Mongolia. With Emart Mongolia, SKYtel telecommunication, Chinggis Khan Hotel, Altai Cashmere, Tengis Movie Theatre and Datacare software companies to oversee in his family’s business, Samadi is working hard to continue his family legacy successfully. Fluent in Mongolian, English and Russian, he has received his bachelor’s degree in Management & Finance from the Regent’s University of London, UK.
Get to know Khulan Gantsog (#HobbyAlumni 2007), the Co-Founder and CEO of Siilen Cashmere, who is reintroducing the Mongolian to the world through e-commerce. With previous background in banking, Khulan is bilingual in Mongolian and English and she graduated from University of Utah, USA.
Get to know Gerelmaa Gerelsaikhan (Hobby School: 1999-2004), Director of Communications / Marketing at Shangri-La Hotel Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is also the Founder of both MonCham Hong Kong and MonCham Singapore. Gema is a true modern Mongolian nomad who studied and worked in Copenhagen, Berlin, Hong Kong, Singapore and Ulaanbaatar. She graduated from Roskilde University, Denmark with a full scholarship.
Meet Batjin Boldbat (Hobby: 2005-2010), Founder of Tomujin Academy and UB Passport. At only 26, Batjin raised 48 billion MNT in financial aid to help students prepare for their SATs, TOEFL and application essays, and apply to their dream colleges in their gap year.He is quadrilingual and has majored in Political Science and Government from Williams College in USA with a full scholarship.
Meet Anudari Batjargal (Hobby Alumni, 2007-2009) who got a full scholarship from Rocky Mountain College and now works at a French multinational Safran aerospace company (NAT) in Seattle, USA, overseeing the aircraft retrofits at only 26! Read about Anudari’s journey from Ulaanbaatar to Seattle and Hong Kong, as a young female professional in an aviation sector.
What do three Mongolians - a senior auditor at Deloitte, a senior consultant at EY, and a senior associate at Ascot Group - have in common, besides working in the same New York city? They are all Hobby Alumni 2011! Meet Namuun Bold, Zolboo Tsogbayar and Zorigoo Tugsbayar.
