Mr. Damdin TSOGTBAATAR,
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mongolia

Damdin TSOGTBAATAR was appointed as the State Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia in June 2008.

Prior to this appointment he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to two Presidents of Mongolia for over six years since 2002. Between 2000 and 2002 Tsogtbaatar was Deputy Director of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia.

Before 2000 he served as a WTO desk-officer for the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; desk-officer in charge of Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN countries in the Asia and Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Tsogtbaatar received his master’s degree in legal studies (international law) from the Australian National University School of Law (with Distinction), and also master’s degree in political science (with Hon.) from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia.

He was a part-time lecturer in international trade law at the School of Foreign Service, National University of Mongolia. His publications include WTO related articles, which were published in London, Boston and Cambridge.

Mr. Tsogtbaatar has fluent Russian and English and also speaks Khmer and Thai.

He is married, with two children.