Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar has been the president of Mongolia since June 2005; he served as speaker of the Parliament 2004–5 and as prime minister 2000–2004. A graduate of the Moscow Institute of Literature, he has also studied at Leeds University in England. Enkhbayar worked for the Mongolian Writers Union as an editor-translator, and was their secretary general and vice president. He has translated Mongolian epics as well as a number of works of European literature, Dickens among them. Enkhbayar has also translated Buddhist teachings into Mongolian.