Orgil Balgansuren joined SEI Asia in August 2019 as a Research Associate with the Gender, Environment and Development (GED) Research Cluster. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand under the joint SEI-CU programme.

He has more than eight years of work experience as Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst at UNDP Country Office, National Consultant at UN FAO, as a researcher at Cooperation and Development Network of Pavia (CDN-Pavia), Italy, as the Value Chain Officer at the Mongolian Potato Programme, and with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation programme in Mongolia.

Orgil also volunteered with PAN Asia Pacific, one of the five regional centres of Pesticide Action Network, where he studied issues related to first generation biofuels from the perspective of women and indigenous peoples in Mindanao, Philippines.

He has researched index-based agricultural insurance schemes focusing on indigenous pastoralist herders living throughout Mongolia and climate change adaptation among the “Tsaatan”, the reindeer herding communities living in the northwest of the country. He has published on biofuels and cash crops.

Orgil holds an M.Sc. in Climate Change and International Development from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and M.A. in Cooperation and Development from the University of Pavia and Institute of Advanced Studies of Pavia, Italy.