Mongolia Update Economic, Political and Cultural Change

Presented by

Mongolia Institute

ANU College of

Asia & the Pacific

Monday, 10 November 2014, 9:00am-6:00pm University House Building 1, Balmain Cres The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra

The ANU Mongolia Institute was established to pro-vide a focus for the growing interest in Mongolia at the Australian National University and in Australia more generally. Historical relations between Austral-ia and Mongolia have been sparse, but in recent years links between the two countries have grown in importance. Australia has significant involvement in the Mongolian mining and energy sectors, both coun-tries have been involved in seeking solutions to secu-rity problems in Northeast Asia and an increasing number of young Mongolians obtain secondary and university education in Australia. Australia and Mon-golia have expertise to share in handling climatic ex-tremes, in animal husbandry and in heritage archae-ology. The expansion of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan in the 13th century remains a pivotal event in world history which continues to catch the imagination of Australians.

The Mongolian Institute hosts guest researchers working on Mongolia, organizes occasional seminars on Mongolian topics, provides a support network for Australian researchers on Mongolia and promotes Mongolian studies in Australia in general. It promotes active participation by government, business and the public in the Institute’s activities.

Presented by

Mongolia Institute

Sponsored by

School of Culture, History and Language

Research School of Asia and the Pacific

ANU College of

Asia & the Pacific

Foundation for Promotion of Mongolian Studies, Mongolia

and

The Embassy of Mongolia to Commonwealth of Australia

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2014 Mongolia Update Program

8:30 Registration 9:00 Welcome Professor Veronica Taylor, Dean of College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU 9:15 Opening His Excellency, Mr Ravdan Bold , Ambassador of Mongolia to the Commonwealth of Australia 9:30 Political economy of resource based growth: mechanisms of aligning public expectations in

Mongolia Chair: Professor Stephen Howes, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU Speaker: Mr Dashdorjiin Zorigt, Former Minister for Mining and Energy of Mongolia 10:30 Morning Tea 11:00 Mineral funded cash transfers in Mongolia: analysis and lessons Chair: Dr Jack Fenner, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU Speaker: Ms Ying Yeung, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU 11:40 Analysis on current Foreign Direct Investment in Mongolia and impact of mining sector on

Mongolian economy Chair: Associate Professor Ligang Song, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU Speaker: Professor Batdelgeriin Tuvshintugs, Director, Economic Research Institute , National

University of Mongolia 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Mongolia’s contemporary art and culture Chair: Professor Ken George, Director, School of Culture, History and Languages, ANU Speaker: Mrs Tserenpil Ariunaa, Executive Director of the Arts Council of Mongolia 14:30 Potential Agricultural Cooperation between Mongolia and Australia —– a scoping study Chair: Professor Li Narangoa, ANU Mongolia Institute Speakers: Ms Sally Grimes and Mr Bill Binks, Department of Agriculture, Australia 15:10 Afternoon Tea 15:40 Mongolia’s outreach to the middle powers Chair: Dr Maria Rost Rublee, ANU Mongolia Institute Speaker: Mr Jargalsaihanii Mendee, University of British Colombia, Canada 16:40 Conclusion Professor Li Narangoa, Director of ANU Mongolia Institute 18:00 Reception Cocktail reception at the Embassy of Mongolia to Australia Address: 23 Culgoa Circuit, O’Malley, ACT 2606

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Mr Rinchinnyamiin Amarjargal is Member of the (Parliament)

State Great Khural. He was a former Prime Minister of Mongolia and contributed to the democratic movement in Mongolia from the beginning. He has hold many different academic and political positions in his career including Professor at Military Academy of Mongolia, Director of Economic college and Minister of Ex-ternal Relations of Mongolia. As Member of the Parliament, he is mainly con-centrating on the fiscal budget policy, political and macro economic matters, free trading, national security, globalization, education, foreign affairs and defensive measures.

Ms Tserenpil Ariunaa is Executive Director of Arts Council of Mongolia

(ACM) & Film Producer. Her films Passion (2010) and Remote Control (2013) won Grand Prize for Asia Vision Award at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (2010) and the New Current Award of The Busan International Film Festival(2013) respectively. Ariunaa is fellow of Eisenhower fellowship– global leadership program (2006) and was member of board of the Open Socie-ty Institute –Soros Foundation (2002-2003) and founding board member of the Open Society Forum (2003-2005).

PARTICIPANTS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Associate Professor Chris Ballard is Deputy Director for Re-

search, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. He is a historian of the Pacific and works across the disciplinary field of history, anthropology, archaeology and geography. Inaugural director of the ANU’s Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, he has worked around large-scale resource projects, including the Freeport copper and gold mine in Indonesia and the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea, focusing in particu-lar on issues of indigenous land rights and human rights, company-community negotiations, and the management of local cultural heritage.

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Mr Bill Binks is a social scientist in the Australian Bureau of Agricultural

and Resource Economics and Sciences, in the Australian Government Depart-ment of Agriculture. His research areas have included examining community resilience and other social indicator frameworks for rural and forestry industry sectors, community participation in biosecurity pest reporting, analysis of food supply chain infrastructure issues, and currently a project examining col-laborative wild dog management in Australia. He is principal author of a scop-ing study researching the potential for agricultural cooperation between Mon-golia and Australia.

Professor Ken George is Director and Professor of Anthropology at

School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Prior to his current position, he served at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University and the University of Oregon. He is a specialist on South-east Asia. His current research projects are two: The first looks at the pro-duction of “companionable objects and “companionable conscience” in an effort to link artworks to ethics, affect, language, and public culture. Another involves a comparative look at early postcolonial artists in Indonesia, Singa-pore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India, and aims at theoretical and disciplinary issues surrounding public culture and the anthropology of art and visual cul-ture.

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Dr Jack Fenner is Research Fellow and Research Laboratory Manager

at the School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member ANU Mongolia Institute. Dr Fenner’s research interests include applying technical and quantitative methods to archaeologi-cal materials and sites to better identify and understand past cultural re-sponses to and drivers of change. He closely works with researchers at the National University of Mongolia. Recently they published together an very interesting article 'Food fit for a Khan: Stable isotope analysis of the elite Mongol Empire cemetery at Tavan Tolgoi, Mongolia' in Journal of Archaeolog-ical Science (vol. 46, no. 1, 2014).

2014 Mongolia Update Participants

Ms Sally Grimes is Assistant Director in the North Asia Section of

the Trade and Market Access Division in the Australian Government

Department of Agriculture. She is responsible for strategic support and

policy advice to facilitate trade and market access with Australia’s

North Asian trading partners. She contributed to a scoping study under-

taken by the Department of Agriculture on the potential for agricultur-

al cooperation between Mongolia and Australia.

Professor Stephen Howes is Director of Development Policy Centre,

Director of International and Development Economics, Crawford School of Pub-lic Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Professor Howes was the Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development, prior to joining the Crawford School in 2009. He worked from 1994 to 2005 at the World Bank, first in Washington and then in Delhi, where he was Lead Econo-mist for India. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Review on Climate Change, where he managed the Review’s international work stream. His research inter-ests include, Aid policy, PNG and the Pacific and International climate change policy.

Associate Professor Ligan Song is Director of China Economy

Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacif-

ic. Professor Song is an economist and his research interests include interna-

tional economic development and policy as well as Institutional Economics. He

published widely on Chinese economic development. He supervises a number

of PhD students and teaches graduate courses in development economics and

institutional economics at Crawford. His current ARC Project focuses on Chi-

na’s industrialisation and its demand on global resources.

Dr Maria Rost Rublee is a member of ANU Mongolian Institute. Dr Ru-

blee specialises in international security, international relations theory, and

international organisations, with regional emphases on East Asia and the Mid-

dle East. Her book, Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear Re-

straint (2009), won the international Alexander George Book Prize Award, giv-

en to the best book in political psychology each year, by the International Soci-

ety for Political Psychology. One of her current projects is investigating how

norm entrepreneurs have influenced nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament

in a number of countries, including Mongolia.

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Professor Li Narangoa is director of Mongolia Institute and staff

member of School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and

the Pacific. She specialises in modern Japanese and Mongolian history and soci-

ety. Before she joined the ANU staff member she was researcher at the Nordic

Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen). Her current research interests include

effects of war on Northeast Asia, Japan's relations with other Asian countries,

Japan's colonial history, historical geography and Mongolian nationalism and

social change.

2014 Mongolia Update Participants

Mr Jargalsaikhan Mendee is a Political Science PhD candidate at

the University of British Columbia. Previously he was a fellow at the Mongolian

Institute for Strategic Studies, and served as the Chief of the Foreign Coopera-

tion Department of Mongolia’s Ministry of Defense, and Defense Attaché at the

Embassy of Mongolia in Washington, DC. His research focuses on security and

democracy of Northeast and Central Asia. His article on the relations between

Mongolia and Australia is available at https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/

mongolia-australia-relations-a-mongolian-perspective-by-mendee-

jargalsaikhan/3_26_31_PM_Policy_Analysis106_Mongolia.pdf

Mr Dashdorj Zorigt is the former Minister of Mineral Resources and

Energy of Mongolia and Member of Parliament. During his tenure, large scale

mining and energy projects were signed or initiated, propelling Mongolia to

become one of the fastest growing frontier economies. He is a strong backer of

renewable energies, supporting the first privately funded commercial scale

wind farm in Mongolia. He has an LLM from Kyushu University, an MA in Inter-

national Relations from the Australian National University and an MA in Politi-

cal Science from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Cur-

rently, he has a consultancy business and undertaking LLD degree at the Kyu-

shu University, Japan.

Ms Ying Yeung is a graduate student at Crawford School of Public Policy,

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. She has worked in economics, internation-

al and indigenous development since 2008. Between 2011 and 2012, she

worked at the World Bank office in Ulaanbaatar under an Australian Volunteer

for International Development assignment, and recently returned to Mongolia

in September 2014 to study the impacts of mineral funded cash transfers fund-

ed by International Mining for Development Centre (http://im4dc.org). She is

currently working on the publication of her research results. Ying holds a Mas-

ters of International Development Economics from the Australian National Uni-

versity.

Professor Batdelger Tuvshintugs is one of the best economists

of Mongolia and Director of Economic Research Institute at the School of Eco-nomic Studies, the National University of Mongolia. Recently, he successfully led several research teams on policy analysis projects such as assessment of big strategic mines impact on Mongolian economy and business environment, issues of policy and development planning and assessment of fiscal transpar-ency and civic participation among others. His main research area is macroe-conomics, international economics, monetary and fiscal policy. His recent publications in East Asia Forum as well as the Australian Financial Review are available at http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2014/03/23/mongolias-economic-prospects-and-challenges/

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Professor Veronica Taylor is Dean of the ANU College of Asia and

the Pacific. Professor Taylor has over twenty five years' experience designing

and leading rule of law and governance projects for the U.S. Department of

State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the

Asian Development Bank and AUSAID. Her projects have focused on Afghani-

stan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Burma/Myanmar, China, Egypt,

Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the United States.

Her interests include Law and society in Asia; Regulation in Asia; Rule of law

promotion; Professions; Legal institutional reform and Legal Education.