Gantuya Sainkhuu
Mongolia
Author and Executive Director of SIS
Promoting activism through women’s empowerment, Gantuya is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Sainkhuu Iveel San, which is named after her father, who was one of the active initiators and promoters of democracy in Mongolia in 1990. Today, through her organisation, Gantuya is promoting activism and women’s leadership by providing leadership training to women at the grassroots level in rural Mongolia. She believes active and responsible citizens are the strong foundation for a healthy democracy. Before establishing Sainkhuu Iveel San, Gantuya worked mostly with international development organisations in Mongolia contributing her efforts, skills, knowledge and experience for the well-being of the people and the country. Based on her experience and activism since 2012, she wrote a book “Irgun” which became the best-selling book in 2014. Since then, it has become one of her passions to write a book to enlighten others, help women and girls to find their mission in life and become leaders in their arena. Gantuya has translated and published international best-selling book “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” by Dr. Joe Dispenza in 2020 and became another best-selling book in Mongolia. As part of her vision to empower rural communities and bring international experience and knowledge into the rural Mongolia where the country is currently experiencing flow of internal migration of rural communities are moving towards the capital city in search of better jobs, better health service and better opportunities, Gantuya has made a bold decision of moving to distance countryside and currently working at the local government office of Bayankhongor province to enhance local communities, contribute her efforts to the rural development and women’s leadership.
It is her passion to contribute her knowledge, skills and experience for the sustainable development of Mongolia and for this, she worked with the Members of Parliament of Mongolia on researching water protection, responsible mining, environmental protection and currently, she is pursuing her Master’s degree in environmental protection. She has her M.B.A. in Business Administration from The Hague University in the Netherlands and Diploma of Public Administration from the Governance Academy of Management in Mongolia. Her interests are reading books, Mongolian folk song and dance, and share her knowledge with others through training and workshop.