Ambassador Addleton to keynote 13th Annual Investors Conference;
September 28-30; Register now for 5% early registration discount;
Discounted group rate rooms at Kempinski Khan Palace Hotel

US Ambassador Jonathan Addleton will deliver the keynote address at our 13th Annual Investors Conference & Prime Minister's Roundtable on the morning of September 29. The conference begins on Tuesday evening, September 28 and concludes Thursday evening, September 30.

Jonathan Addleton is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service from the state of Georgia who took up his post on November 9, 2009. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Mongolia , he served as Counselor for International Development at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels . Previously, he served as USAID Mission Director in Pakistan , Cambodia and Mongolia and as USAID Program Officer in Jordan , Kazakhstan , South Africa and Yemen.

5% discount for early registrations received by August 6 - Registrations received with payment by August 6 receive a 5% discount. The deadline for all registrations is September 13, after which a late penalty is applied. A link to a registration form follows below

Program components include panels on “Meeting Mongolia’s Rising Energy Needs with Clean Technologies,” "Mining, Oil and Natural Resource Development," "Politics, Parties and Parliament" and others TBA. The conference opens with a reception on the evening of Tuesday, September 28, following by two days of presentations and discussions at the Kempinski Khan Palace Hotel and the annual roundtable meeting with the Prime Minister at his official residence. 

Group rate at  Kempinski KhanPalace Hotel  – The 4-star Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace in Ulaanbaatar is the primary venue for our Investors Conference. Please see the link below for group room rates which represent a 20% discount from regular rates. These rates INCLUDE daily breakfast buffet, the VAT and free use of high speed Internet access. For more details on the hotel, see www.kempinski-ulaanbaatar.com/ulaanbaatar   To make room reservations, contact the hotel directly at reservations.ulaanbaatar@kempinski.com or fax your reservations to FAX number 976+11+463464.

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NAMBC hosts Mongolian delegation to international franchising conference and Eisenhower Fellow from Ministry of Finance

The NAMBC recently hosted meetings in Washington , DC , with a Mongolian delegation attending the International Franchising Expo and with Mr. Balgan Batbayar, Director General of the Finance Ministry's Financial and Economic Policy Department, who is on a two-month study tour of the US as part of his Eisenhower Fellowship.

In cooperation with Rio Tinto and the US Commerce Department, the NAMBC organized a series of briefings for the franchising delegation at the Washington offices of Baker & McKenzie law firm in a conference room with panoramic views of the White House. Briefers included Ms. Zhen Gong Cross, Head of Mongolian Affairs at the US Department of Commerce (USDOC), Mr. Daniel Keenaghan, an expert in international franchising at USDOC, Mr. Eugene Theroux, senior counsel at Baker & McKenzie, who had negotiated several of the earliest US franchising deals in China, and Mr. Michael Flannigan, Global Practice Leader of Government and Corporate Relations for Rio Tinto, which also hosted lunch for the delegation. The delegation was organized by our brother organization, the Business Council of Mongolia (BCM), and the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar.

Eisenhower Fellow Balgan Batbayar is looking into how the US federal, state and local governments regulate and interact with extractive industries and how American NGOs contribute to public oversight of the mining industry He discussed these and other topics at the NAMBC offices on April 13 with NAMBC President Steve Saunders The Eisenhower Fellowships is a Philadelphia- based international leadership development program which every year sponsors 40-50 emerging leaders from a range of professions and countries to visit the US on two month fellowships to meet with people with relevant professional interests. Mr. Balgan is among 19 Eisenhower Fellows from as many countries visiting the US from early April until mid May.

Michael Flannigan of Rio Tinto briefs Mongolian delegation

Eisenhower Fellow B. Balgan and NAMBC President Steve Saunders

Speakers at Ottawa AGM emphasize asset protection, transparent
mining regulation, broadening Canada-Mongolia trade relations,
planning for first visit to Canada by Prime Minister Batbold

Speakers at our 20th anniversary Annual General Meeting in Ottawa, April 20-22, were upbeat about the future of Canada-Mongolia relations and announced that discussions were on-going about Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold visiting Canada in the fall of 2010.

Speakers emphasized the need for Mongolia to swiftly ramp up the government regulatory apparatus needed for smooth development of new mining investments and encourage top-to-bottom transparency in all aspects of mining development. Speakers also focused on the need for asset protection in the form of a bilateral Canada-Mongolia Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPA) and continued expansion of bilateral commercial relations in sectors other than natural resource development.

Our keynote speaker was H. E. T. Zalaa-Uul, Mongolian Ambassador to Canada. Other speakers included Ken Sunquist, Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) for Asia & Africa and Senior Trade Commissioner of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and H.E. Anna Biolik, Canadian Ambassador to Mongolia.

Ambassador Biolik is the first resident Canadian ambassador to Mongolia. Before her appointment, Canada's ambassador to China was also non-resident ambassador to Mongolia. Ambassador Zalaa-Uul is Mongolia's third resident ambassador in Ottawa; previously, the resident Mongolian Ambassador to the US was also accredited to Ottawa.

Our Board of Directors confirmed that the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the NAMBC will be held in Washington, DC. The 2012 AGM will once again be in Ottawa.

Click here for full text of address by Ambassador T. Zalaa --Uul

Click here for full text of address by Ken Sunquist, ADM, DFAIT

Ambassador T. Zalaa-Uul
Ken Sunquist, ADM
DFAIT

Jack Weatherford scores another hit with new Mongol Queens history; 
Mongolian edition is honored as "Book of the Year"

Six years ago, Jack Weatherford’s best-selling history, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, ignited a global reappraisal of the Mongolian empire and its positive contributions. Weatherford has done it again in his masterful sequel, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. This highly-readable new book was the result of Weatherford recognizing that one volume could not convey all he wanted to write about the 13th-century ruler who shaped the largest empire in the history of the world and those who inherited it.

Honored in Mongolia as “Book of the Year” for 2009 in its Mongolian language edition, Scientific American listed Mongol Queens as a Recommended Book for 2010. One reviewer praised the author’s original research and ability to explain the complicated relationships, noting that “Weatherford writes clearly and dynamically.”

The Secret History is available at Amazon.com in hardback, paperback and Kindle, at BarnesandNoble.com and other booksellers.  Dr. Jack Weatherford holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia . In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia ’s highest decoration. He is also the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilizations, and The History of Money.

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NAMBC seeks all Mongols who studied in Canada,
wherever you are now living

The NAMBC is still looking for Mongolian citizens who attended or are now attending high school, college, university, or even a short language or technical training course in Canada. If you attended any Canadian institution of learning, even if you did not graduate, please let us know. We are in the processing of forming a “Canadian Alumni of Mongolia” (CAM) program. It does not matter where you now live.

Please send us your name, the institution(s) you attended and dates, degree(s) earned if applicable, your personal email address and the country where you now live. Send your information to hqinfo@nambc.org ASAP. We plan to welcome CAM members to our Annual General Meeting in Ottawa in April 2010. Education exports by Canada and the USA are significant elements of each nation’s bilateral current account with Mongolia.