Dolgion Aldar

Program Director, Ponlok Chomnes, Cambodia

2018 Asia Foundation Development Fellow

Dolgion Aldar serves as the program director for Ponlok Chomnes II: Data and Dialogue for Development at The Asia Foundation in Cambodia, overseeing program management and implementation. She brings over 15 years of experience in governance, social well-being, evaluation, and policy research.

Prior to joining The Asia Foundation, she served as a socioeconomic expert at UNDP Timor-Leste, leading UN-government collaborations on socio-economic policy research and assessments. Before working with UNDP Timor-Leste, Dolgion was CEO of the Independent Research Institute of Mongolia, one of Mongolia’s leading policy research institutions.

Dolgion was an Asia Foundation Development Fellow in 2018, and currently serves as a board member of the Research Committee on Social Indicators of the International Sociological Association and a member of the Social Well-Being Research Consortium in Asia. She was previously a board member of the Asia-Pacific Evaluation Association and member of the National Committee on Gender Equality of Mongolia.

Dolgion Aldar holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Manchester and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from the National University of Mongolia.

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