Ulaanbaatar
Ts.Uranchimeg becomes Mongolian Cultural Envoy
Art & CultureUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ B.Battsetseg, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs handed over a certificate of Cultural Envoy of Mongolia to Dr. Ts.Uranchimeg, art critic and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a Cultural Envoy of Mongolia, Ts.Urantsetseg will be responsible for enhancing Mongolia's image abroad and developing Mongol studies as well as cooperating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia in order to boost cultural cooperation with other countries.
Ts.Uranchimeg, who had studied at the Mongolian Fine Art Institute and the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture in 1995-2002, earned a doctorate degree from the UC Berkeley in 2009, where she has been teaching since then.
She has played an important role in the revival of the activities of the Center of Mongolian Studies of the CSU for her active participation in the development of Mongol studies and an establishment of "Mongolia Initiative" program at the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. Since 2002, she has been actively organizing a number of events in favor of the development of the Mongol studies, such as art and cultural exhibitions.
