Banzragchiin Delgermaa

Banzragchiin Delgermaa is a famous politician and public figure in Mongolia. Born into a famous family of the Mongolian intelligentsia, her father was a famous novelist and his works were published in Russian, German, Czech, and Romanian languages. Her mother was a singer of the Mongolian traditional plangent song – “Urtyn duu”.
Banzragchiin Delgermaa, a lawyer by education, began her career in the State Prosecutor’s Office and, after working for 5 years, became a teacher at the Faculty of Law at the State University. During the years of the democratic movement, she became one of the first women to take an active part in the reform of the country. In 1990, as an Advisor to the Standing Committee on Economic Policy of the first Parliament of Mongolia, she worked on bills such as privatization of state property, creation of a new banking, customs, tax system, private property, and others. She worked on the draft of the new Constitution of Mongolia. In 1996, after becoming a member of Parliament, Banzragchiin Delgermaa headed the human rights committee. In 1998, she became the first woman to be elected Secretary General of the then ruling Democratic Party. She was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Singapore, and in 2016 she became the first woman Ambassador to the Russian Federation in the hundred-year history of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Banzragchiin Delgermaa has served as Advisor and Senior Advisor to two Prime Ministers of Mongolia. Currently, Banzragchiin Delgermaa is the President of the cultural “Norovbanzad Foundation,” which was created in 2003 on her initiative and financial support.