Baabar

This is a Mongolian name. The given name is Bat Erdene, and the name Batbayar is a patronymic, not a family name. The subject should be referred to by the given name.

Бат-Эрдэнийн Батбаяр
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Director of Nepko Publishing
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 69–70) Tsetserleg, Arkhangai, Mongolia
Political party	Mongolian Social Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Amarsanaa
Children	2
Alma mater	1972 Graduated from a high school in Ulan-Bator 1972-1973 Attended a preparatory course at the Mongolian State University 1973-1980 Studied at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland until he was transferred to Mongolian State University which he graduated in 1981 majoring in biochemistry. 1987-1989 Studied at the Moscow State University, Soviet Union. 1990 Scholarship at The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Website	www.baabar.mn

Baabar (shortened name) (Mongolian: Баабар, birth name Bat-Erdeniin Batbayar, Бат-Эрдэнийн Батбаяр; born in Tsetserleg, Arkhangai in 1954) is a Mongolian retired politician, political analyst and writer.

Education

• 1972 Graduated from a high school in Ulan-Bator
• 1972-1973 Attended a preparatory course at the Mongolian State University
• 1973-1980 Studied at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland until he was transferred to Mongolian State University which he graduated in 1981 majoring in biochemistry.
• 1987-1989 Studied at the Moscow State University, Soviet Union.
• 1990 Scholarship at The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Career

Baabar worked at the Microbiological Research and Production Center as a Researcher in 1981-1991 until he became the Leader of the Mongolian Social Democratic Party. He resigned as the Leader of the Mongolian Social Democratic Party in 1994.

Baabar was elected to the State Great Hural of Mongolia in 1996. In 1998, he was Minister for Finance.

After being defeated at the 2004 parliamentary election, he worked as Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister in 2004-2005.

Since 2006, he has been running Nepko Publishing Company.

In 2009, he was awarded with the State Awards of Mongolia for History of Mongolia.

Publications

• Buu Mart. Martval Sonono (Don't Forget. Otherwise, We'll Be Doomed), 1989
• History of Mongolia, 1996
• Altan Gurvalzhin (Golden Triangle)
• Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica)

External links

• Baabar's Official Website
• Nepko's Official Website