Ganzorigiin Temüülen
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- 1st, Arkhangai, Bayankhongor, Övörkhangai Province
(2024–2028) - 1st, Arkhangai Province
(2020–2024) - 1st, Arkhangai Province
(2016–2020)
Ganzorigiin Temuulen | |
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Ганзоригийн Тэмүүлэн | |
 Temuulen in 2025 | |
| Member of the State Great Khural Chairman of the Standing Committee on Security and Foreign Policy | |
| Assumed office 5 July 2016 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | January 10, 1981 |
| Party | Mongolian People's Party |
| Alma mater | Dickson College American University (BA) & (MA) |
Ganzorigiin Temuulen (Mongolian: Ганзоригийн Тэмүүлэн; born 10 January 1981), also referred to as Temuulen Ganzorig, is a Mongolian politician who has served as a member of the State Great Khural, the unicameral parliament of Mongolia, since 2016. A member of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP), he represents a constituency that includes Arkhangai, Bayankhongor, and Uvurkhangai provinces. Temuulen has been re-elected to parliament in 2016, 2020, and 2024, serving multiple terms and holding several leadership positions in parliamentary committees. From 2022 until 2024, he served as chairman of the Standing Committee on Budget. He currently serves as chairman of the Standing Committee on Security and Foreign Policy of the State Great Khural.
Temuulen was born in Ikh Tamir, Arkhangai Province, on 10 January 1981.[1] He attended Dickinson College in Canberra, Australia before attending university.[2]
He pursued higher education in the US, studying international relations and management at the American University in Washington, D.C., where he earned abachelor's degree in 2003[3] and later earned Masters degree in International Public Administration from the same institution in 2005.[4] During his college years, Temuulen participated in the free-style wrestling team and received acclaim.
Early career
Temuulen began his professional career in Mongolia's mineral resources sector. From 2006 to 2009, he worked at the Mineral Resource Authority of Mongolia, where he progressed from officer to senior officer and later head of the contract department. During his time at the contract department, Temuulen headed the working group which led to the 2009 Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement.
In 2009, he became deputy director of Erdenes Mongol, the country's principal state-owned enterprise responsible for representing the government's ownership and interests in matters involving strategically significant mineral deposits, a position he held until 2014. During this period, he also served as board member of Oyu Tolgoi from 2013 to 2015. In 2014, he was appointed to the government cabinet as Vice Minister of Mining and Heavy Industry. He held both positions until his resignation in 2015 in protest to the new Oyu Tolgoi agreement, commonly refferred to as the Dubai agreement. Temuulen publicly protested to the newly proposed agreement, which would delay Mongolia's dividend from the mining project for years.
