Oyungerel Tsedevdamba (; born 26 October 1966 in the Tarialan district of the

Mongolian People's Republic The Mongolian People's Republic ( mn, Бүгд Найрамдах Монгол Ард Улс, БНМАУ; , ''BNMAU''; ) was a socialist state which existed from 1924 to 1992, located in the historical region of Outer Mongolia in East Asia. It w ...

) is policy advisor for human rights and public participation to the

President of Mongolia The president of Mongolia ( mn, Монгол Улсын Ерөнхийлөгч, ''Mongol Ulsyn Yerönkhiilögch'') is the executive head of state of Mongolia.Montsame News Agency. ''Mongolia''. 2006, , p. 42 The current president is Ukhnaagiin ...

Khaltmaagiin Battulga Khaltmaagiin Battulga (; mn, Халтмаагийн Баттулга, Haltmaagiin Battulga, , also referred to as Battulga Khaltmaa; born 3 March 1963) is a Mongolian politician and sambo wrestler who served as the 5th President of Mongolia fr ...

. Oyungerel is a member of the

Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ...

and former minister of culture, tourism and sports, as well as a former member of the Mongolian Parliament. She was the first female Parliament member in Mongolia. She is known for her human rights work.

Education

Oyungerel attended

Stanford Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...

and Yale Universities, as well as the Moscow International Business School and Sverdlovsk State Academy of Sciences. She was Stanford's first Mongolian student, enrolling in 2003 at age 36 in the master’s program in international policy studies.

Career

Oyungerel's work has including helping pass laws addressing domestic violence and protecting cultural heritage sites, home to Mongolian indigenous people, as well as working to stop smugglers from illegally removing dinosaur fossils from Mongolia. Her interest in dinosaurs began in 2006 with a visit to the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...

, which displayed Mongolian dinosaur fossils the guide said would be returned to Mongolia if the country had a museum to display them. In 2009, her book ''Shadow of the Red Star (later titled The Green Eyed Lama)'' was longlisted for the

Man Asian Literary Prize The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. It is awarded to writer ...

. The sequel, ''Sixty White Sheep'', was published in Mongolian in 2017.

Personal life

Oyungerel has two children.

References

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