28 Facts About Chimediin Saikhanbileg

Chimediin Saikhanbileg is accused of corruption, taking bribes from major companies and using his power to benefit his own companies.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg is currently residing somewhere in the United States as he has been wanted by the Government of Mongolia since 2017 when he fled the country after leaving custody on bail.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was born on 20 January 1969, as the second of 4 children of Chimed Ochir, on the morning of the first day of Tsagaan Sar, the Lunar New Year, one of Mongolia's largest festive holidays, in Bayantumen soum of Dornod aimag, the easternmost province of Mongolia.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg's father, Chimed Ochir, and mother, Orolmaa Alag, were both engineers.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg's father oversaw the construction of new industrial, cultural, residential buildings, and the new airport built by the Russian Construction Company in Ulaanbaatar the capital city of Mongolia and greatly contributed to the development of the city's modern image and look.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg attended the 45th school in Ulaanbaatar city between 1976 and 1986, for general compulsory education.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg worked at the Mongolian National Television as a children's show host.

When working for the Mongolian Youth Federation, Mongolia's largest youth NGO, Chimediin Saikhanbileg studied law and received his Bachelor of Law degree from the School of Law of the Mongolian National University in 1995.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg initiated and implemented numerous reforms and ideas in line with the ideals and mindsets of youths including the reorganization of this organization into the Mongolian Youth Federation, modernizing its form into that of the classical non-governmental organizations and expelling party influence.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg ran and won in the 1996 Mongolian parliamentary election, becoming the youngest Member of the Mongolian Parliament at the age of 27.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was one of the initiating members of the 2000 Constitutional Amendment.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg initiated the Law on Parliament, the Law on the Legal Status of Parliament Members, and the Law on Parliamentary Procedures, which became the basis of contemporary core legal and regulatory system.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg served as the first Chairman of the Board of the National University of Mongolia, the largest and oldest university in Mongolia.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg studied for 2 years in the United States of America after the 2000 Parliamentary Election.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was appointed the Chairman of Information and Communication Technology Authority of the Mongolian Government after the 2004 Parliamentary Election where he served until 2008.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg oversaw and completed the construction of high-speed Internet access and fiber-optic cables in 1.5 million km2 area of Mongolia, connecting 21 aimags and 330 soums during those years.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg successfully managed the re-negotiation of a 20-year contract with the Korea Telecom company, which had been signed in 1995 and had granted the company an exclusive right to use central telecommunication network.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was able to remove the exclusive rights, inviting fair competition to the industry.

In 2012 Parliamentary election, Chimediin Saikhanbileg became a Member of Parliament for the third time, his Democratic Party faction gained the most number of seats in the Parliament and formed the Government.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was appointed Chief of the Cabinet Secretariat, a Cabinet Minister.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was appointed the 28th Prime Minister of Mongolia on 21 November 2014.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg is credited as having reduced the budget expenditures by MNT 2 trillion consecutively for 2 years.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg visited the main capital markets: London, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore, met with the leaders, businesses, and investors from those countries, organized Investment conferences in each country he visited, presented Mongolian markets and mega projects and invited them to invest.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg visited prominent television studios such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, and CCTV for live programs to speak about the political environment surrounding the Mongolian economy and investment.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg met with the World Bank, IMF, IFC, Credit Suisse, EBRD, ADB and ING, and their executives, and came up with specific solutions for investment and co-operation in Mongolia.

In July 2016, as a Prime Minister of Mongolia, Chimediin Saikhanbileg hosted the leaders of state and government of 53 countries of Europe and Asia for the ASEM Summit in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg met his wife, Baigal, at the Mongolian Student Festival on the shores of Baikal lake.

Chimediin Saikhanbileg was elected the President of the Mongolian Powerlifting Federation from 2010 to 2017.