Natsagiin Bagabandi


Natsagiin Bagabandi is a Mongolian politician and the Director of Oyu Tolgoi LLC.
Previously, he was the President of Mongolia from 1997 to 2005, and a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
He was born on 22 April, 1950 in Zavkhan, Mongolia.He studied in Leningrad, Ukraine and Moscow, and graduated in Food engineering. In 1987, he received a doctorate in Philosophy.
He became speaker of the legislature, State Great Khural, in 1992 for four years, then ran for presidential elections in 1997, winning them. He won re-election in 2001.
In the presidential elections on May 22, 2005, Nambaryn Enkhbayar was elected to succeed Natsagiin Bagabandi with 53.4 percent of the vote and took office in June.

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