The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

President Nambaryn Enkhbayar
President of Mongolia

"Mongolia and the future of Northeast Asia:
Economics, Politics, and Security"

Friday, October 26, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 24th October to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

President Nambaryn Enkhbayar took office on June 24, 2005 after winning the May 2005 elections.
President Enkhbayar is the ex-chairman of former communist party - Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP). PresidentEnkhbayar was the Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2000 until 2004 and Speaker of Parliament between 2004 and 2005.
President Enkhbayar graduated from the Moscow Institute of Literature in 1980 and also attended English language courses at Leeds University in England in 1990s. He worked for the Mongolian Writer's Union from 1980 to 1990 as a translator-editor, a secretary general and a vice president. He translated Buddhist teachings into Mongolian.
President Enkhbayar was elected as a member of the State Great Khural (the Mongolian parliament) in 1992 and served as minister of culture from 1992 to 1996. In 1997, he became the leader of the opposition post-communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which he had joined in 1985. There, he led his party to victory in 2000 elections. On 26 July 2000, he was unanimously elected as the prime minister in the Parliament with 72 MPRP members out of 76 seats. He is credited with the revitalization of his party. His party lost almost half of its seats in the elections of 2004, and in August 2004, he entered a coalition with opposition parties and became the Speaker of Parliament.
In the presidential elections on May 22, 2005, Enkhbayar was elected to succeed Natsagiin Bagabandi with 53.4 percent of the vote. His main rival, Mendsaikhan Enkhsaikhan of the Mongolian Democratic Party, collected 20 percent of the vote.