Batkhishig Baival

Sustainability Advisor & Founder

Co-founder of the SFA, Batkhishig was appointed as Country Director of SFA Mongolia in 2015 and has recently taken on the role of Sustainability Advisor. Her expertise is in coupled human-environmental systems, with a particular focus on rural herding communities in Mongolia. She has qualifications in rangeland science, community-based resource management and adaptive capacity building. Prior to joining the SFA she worked for the United Nations Development Programme, managed several large-scale conservation and development projects and consulted for various bilateral and international donor organisations and corporations. She completed her Masters in Biotechnology at the University of Manchester in 1998, followed by a PhD in Rangeland Ecosystem Science at Colorado State, USA.