Mishigiin Sonompil has been a Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

's Minister for Defense since January 2006 and a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 since June 2004.

Early life and education

Mishigiin Sonompil was born in Tes sum

Tes, Uvs

Tes is a sum of Uvs Province in western Mongolia.It is named after the Tesiin gol river that flows through the sum. Part of the area is covered with sand dunes. The sum's western end is the eastern shore of Uvs Nuur....

, Uvs Aimag

Uvs Province

Uvs is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. It is located in the west of the country, 1336 km away from the national capital Ulaanbaatar.Its capital is Ulaangom which lies 936m above the Sea level....

 (province). He finished ten year general educational school #1 of Darkhan-Uul Aimag in 1984. He is graduated from the General soldier command class of Defense University of Mongolia in 1988. He worked as a staff sergeant in the military unit of division #167 of the Mongolian army in 1988-1990, and in the educational unit of division #150 in 1990-1991.

Business career

From 1994, Sonompil began to work as a manager at his brother Mishigiin Chimedtseren's private company "Zaluu Mongol" and Sonompil took the position of the corporate president in 1997. Sonompil worked as a corporate president until he was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2004.

Political career

Sonompil's political career began when his Parliamentary Member brother Mishigiin Chimedtseren died in a deltaplane accident in 1997. He ran as an MP candidate from the Democratic Union

Mongolian Democratic Union

The Democratic Union Coalition was a coalition of political parties in Mongolia. Its primary constituents were the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party, and its core policies were the implementation of political and economic reforms in the post-communist period.In the 1996...

 Coalition, to fill in his died brother's position, but he was unsuccessful in both the 1997 and 2000 elections. In 2004, Sonompil ran for the third time for the elections from the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Mongolia)

The Democratic Party is a conservative liberal and libertarian political party in Mongolia. Its primary goals are the continued transformation of Mongolia into an open and democratic society.- History :...

, and this time he was elected as a Member of Parliament.

However, in January 2006 he voted with the former communist MPRP members against the coalition government of Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj

Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is the President of Mongolia. He won the election on May 24, 2009. The candidate of the Democratic Party, he became Mongolia's first president to never have been a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the first to obtain a Western education...

. He did so in spite of a decision of the Democratic Party's Directing Board. The Party's Main Legal Committee therefore cancelled Sonompil's membership in February 2006. In the new government under Miyeegombyn Enkhbold of MPRP, Mishigiin Sonompil was awarded the role of Minister of Defense.

Memberships

• National President of Mongolia's Youth Chamber from 2000,
• Chairman of the provincial council of Darkhan-Uul province,
• Board Member of Mongolia's Volleyball Union,
• Leading Member of Mongolia's Autosport and Tourism Union.

External links

• Mishigiin Sonompil's bio in Mongolia's Ministry of Defense website, 2006 (Mongolian)