Sanjaagiin Bayar, Prime Minister of Mongolia, The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) Chairman
Born December 24, 1956 in Ulan Bator.
1978 - Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Speaks Russian and English.
1978 - 1979 - The Executive Committee of the Khural of Ulan Bator's Nairamdal district, specialist.
1979 - 1983 - Served in the General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces; The group of Soviet military advisors under the Mongolian General Staff, military interpreter.
1983 - 1987 - The Montsame News Agency, journalist, editor, editor-in-chief.
1987 - 1990 - The Mongolian State Committee for Information, Radio and Television, Deputy Head.
1990 - 1992 - The State Great Khural of Mongolia, member; the Standing Committee for State Development, Chairman.
1993 - 1996 - Lecturer; research work at the Management Academy in Mongolia and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA).
1994 - 1997 - The Institute for Strategic Studies under the Mongolian Defence Ministry, Deputy Director, Director.
1997 - 2001 - The Chancellery of the President of Mongolia, Head.
2001 - 2005 - Mongolian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia.
January, 2005 - The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), General Secretary.
October, 2007 - Elected MPRP Chairman at the 25th party congress. This congress also adopted a resolution to appoint the MPRP Chairman the Prime Minister ex officio.
November, 2007 - Prime Minister of Mongolia.
September 11, 2008 - Reappointed as Prime Minister of Mongolia.
Was married twice; has four daughters.
