Tsolmontuya joined The Asia Foundation in Mongolia in 2020. She is responsible for the effective implementation of programming supporting and promoting gender equality and social inclusion. She has overseen and managed several projects in the past including the Women’s Economic Empowerment project funded by Global Affairs Canada which is enabling women’s leadership and equal economic participation in Mongolia, Increase the resilience of women entrepreneurs to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, funded by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Supporting the LGBT Centre to Enhance Mongolia’s LGBTQI+ movement, and the first-ever Gender Studies program in Mongolia with The National University of Mongolia using funds from The Asia Foundation’s Lotus Circle.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked in the microfinance development sector in Mongolia for over eight years, advancing consumers’ financial literacy and access to finance with the Sustainable Livelihood II Project funded by the World Bank. She is also a 2022 candidate of the Obama Foundation’s Asia Pacific Leader program which aims to accelerate positive and lasting change in Asia and the Pacific and across the world.
Tsolmontuya contributes to changes in the enabling environment for gender equity by supporting initiatives with holistic approaches targeting a range of women’s organizations including grassroots and civil society organizations, other stakeholders, and women entrepreneurs.
Education: Tsolmontuya received a master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa with advanced graduate credentials in Women’s Studies. She has bachelor’s degrees from Raffles International College and Institute of Finance and Economics Mongolia.
