Social Enterprise Fellow Alumnus
Founder & President, Global Leadership University
Founder & Chairman, New Century Leadership International School
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, M.P.A., 2016
Dr Otgonbat is an entrepreneur, educator, politician, and best-selling author of several books, including An Opportunity to Study in the United States and On the Balcony: A Mongolian Dream. He is a frequent speaker on leadership and education, both in Mongolia and internationally; recently, he has been lecturing on authentic and adaptive leadership for a variety of audiences in Mongolia and abroad. After graduating from Dickinson State University in the United States with a BS in Business Administration, he earned his graduate diploma in International Travel/Tourism Management at the University of Queensland in Australia as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar.
After ten years spent establishing his own university and active in Mongolian politics, Mr Otgonbat graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Public Administration (as an MC/MPA Mason Fellow). At Harvard, he was selected as a fellow at the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute and the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School. Mr Otgonbat was also a New Generation Fellow at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. He has held advisory positions in the cabinets of the Mongolian Education and Finance Ministers and worked as Chief Operating Officer of the Millennium Challenge Account in Mongolia.
He is the founder/president of the Global Leadership University, a leading institution of higher learning located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with a current enrollment of 3000 full-time students studying in fields of medicine, nursing, business, law and humanities. He is also the founder/chairman of the board of the New Century Leadership International School, one of the few Cambridge International schools in Mongolia. He received his Doctor of Education (EdD) degree in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and his dissertation work focused on building a world-class university in Mongolia. He lives with his wife and three children in Ulaanbaatar.
