Oyun Sanjaasuren is the former Minister of Environment and Green Development, Member of Parliament and leading female politician. As co-chair of the Civil Will-Green Party, she has been a consistent advocate of clean politics, good governance and sensible socio-economic development. Her background in mining following her PhD at Cambridge has uniquely positioned her to focus on the development of Mongolia’s extremely rich soil.
Since entering politics in 1998, she had been systematically elected to parliament and had chaired a number of key standing committees, pushing in particular crucial legislation on corruption, election financing and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2014, she assumed the chairmanship of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) and was elected as the inaugural President of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA). In July 2016, she became the chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a global organization that aspires for a water secure world.
To further her goals, she also founded and chairs the Zorig Foundation, a leading NGO dedicated to the advancement of democracy, good governance, and development. A former Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Mongolian Geological Association, she is a woman of versatile interests.
Oyun served as CALD Chair from 2014-2016.
