Mishig Sonompil

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Mishig Sonompil at the International Institute for Strategic Studies 2006 "Shangri-La Dialogue"

Mishigyn Sonompil (Mongolian Мишигийн Сономпил; born 1965), has been a Mongolia's Minister for Defense since January 2006 and a Member of Parliament since June 2004.

1 Early life and education
2 Business career
3 Political career
4 Memberships
5 External links

[edit] Early life and education

Mishig Sonompil was born in Tes sum, Uvs Aimag (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.

[edit] Business career

From 1994, Sonompil began to work as a manager at his brother Mishig 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.

[edit] Political career

Sonompil's political career began when his Parliamentary Member brother Mishig Chimedtseren died in a deltaplane accident in 1997. He ran as a MP candidate from the Democratic Union Coalition, to fill in his passed away 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, 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. 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, Mishig Sonompil was awarded the role of Minister of Defense.