S.BAYARTSOGT APPOINTED AS HEAD OF CABINET SECRETARIAT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A member of parliament S.Bayartsogt was appointed the head of the Cabinet Secretariat for Government after a voting at a plenary meeting of parliamentary session on Tuesday by 75 percent of 48 MPs gathered. Mr Bayartsogt Sangajav finished the 1st secondary school of Selenge aimag’s center in 1984, graduated from the State University of Moscow in 1989 and International Trade Academy of Germany in 1996, Mongolian State University (MSU) in 2003. He is an economist, teacher and lawyer. Bayartsogt worked as the secretary of the Youth Union in 1989-1990, as a deputy chair of the Central Committee of Mongolian Revolutionary Youths’ Union in 1990-1991. He was also a member of both People’s Great Khural and State Conference in 1990-1992. He worked as the president of the Union of Mongolian Youths (UMY) in 1991-1997, as a scientific worker and teacher at the Education Academy of Politics in 1992-1994. He was elected MP in 1996, served as a deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Party in 1996 and 1999. He was elected the Minister of Environment in 1998 and the Minister of Finance later.