Ambassador Pam Slutz, Chairman of the NAMBC (North America-Mongolia Business Council), has announced that Dr. S. Oyun, Minister of the Environment, and UB Mayor/Govern E. Bat-Uul will be featured speakers at the NAMBC’s 16^th Annual Investors Conference, September 24-26, 2013, at the Kempinski Khan Palace Hotel. Dr. Oyun will be the lead speaker in the segment on “Green Development is Profitable Development” and Mayor/Governor E. Bat-Uul will kick off the segment on “Urbanization in Mongolia and the Transformation of Ulaanbaatar.” Other conference panels will address “The Future of Mining in Mongolia” and “Investment and the Mongolian Economy.”

The Investors Conference will also celebrate this year’s 40th anniversary of Mongolia-Canada diplomatic relations. Full simultaneous interpretation will be provided. This conference is the oldest, longest-running international investors forum in or about Mongolia, held annually in UB since 1998, and one of the few organized by an independent non-profit NGO. Non-members from any country are welcome. Sponsors include the BCM; the exclusive media partner is Mongol Mass Media LLC. www.news.mn.

Dr. S. Oyun, the first Mongolian to earn a PhD from Cambridge University (UK), is Minister of Environment and Green Development and chairman of the Civic Will Green Party. She has been a Member of Parliament continuously since 1998, re-elected in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. She is also a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and is the current head of the Zorig Foundation. In 2003, Dr. Oyun held an Eisenhower Fellowship (US) and in 2006, was named as a rising Young Global Leader (YGL) by the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF).

Bat-Uul was elected Mayor of Ulaanbaatar and Governor of the Capital on August 7, 2012 by the City Council. An astrophysicist by profession, Bat-Uul was one of the leaders of Mongolia”s 1990 democratic revolution. He served as chairman of the Democratic Party from 1990 to 1992, and as the party”s general secretary from 1992 to 1996. He was elected to the State Great Khural in 1996, 2004 and 2008. Ulaanbaatar is home to over half the nation’s population where Mayor Bat-Uul has laid out a vision for ambitious infrastructure projects and reforms in governance that are transforming the capital city while offering many opportunities for investors. For registration forms, go to www.nambc.org or contact hqinfo@nambc.org.