Sumati Luvsandendev

Biographical Details
"Sumati Luvsandendev is the Executive Director of Sant Maral Foundation since 1994. He is also the Chairperson of Transparency International – Mongolia and a board member of the Arts Council of Mongolia. Previously Sumati earned    Diploma in Applied Mathematics (Informatics), Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR; attended summer school in Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and held fellowship in Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw.

"The “Sant Maral" Foundation (SMF) was established in September 1994 as a public benefit, self-governing, non-profit NGO. The founders of the Foundation formulated its main goal as to contribute to Mongolia's social development geared towards the creation of a society based upon the principles of freedom, justice and democracy. Under Sumati's leadership Sant Maral has conducted numbers of opinion polls, market and research projects. For 15 years political surveys of Sant Maral had been funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of Germany. Among other SMF clients are political parties, Khan Bank, World Bank, EBRD, Asia Foundation, GTZ, Mitsui, Caterpillar and many others."


 * Director, Business Council of Mongolia