North America-Mongolia Business Council

North America-Mongolia Business Council (formerly known as the US Mongolia Business Council)

In a 2000 report, *Steve Saunders - who was then President of the Council - noted: "The U.S.-Mongolia Business Council was founded in 1991. By 1993, we had more than 75. There were great enthusiasm and high expectations of rapid change. Ikh Hural Chairman L. Enebish, who was then Deputy Prime Minister, gave a brilliant speech at the 1993 annual meeting, inviting and encouraging foreign investors to come to the New Mongolia. But the expectations, I think, of those North American investors were too high, their expectations of the amount of time it would take for the transition to occur were too optimistic. From a high of 75, membership plunged to 25 by early 1993."

People
Accessed September 2008:

NAMBC Officers

(Note: all officers are also members of the board of directors)


 * Edward T. Story, Chairman (SOCO International)
 * Jim Wagenlander, Vice Chairman (Wagenlander & Heisterkamp Law Firm)
 * Pete Morrow, Vice Chairman (Khan Bank)
 * Ken deGraaf, Vice Chairman (deRandt Enterprises)
 * Gene Theroux, Secretary-Treasurer (Baker & McKenzie Law Firm)

NAMBC Board of Directors
 * Myrna Ann Adkins (The Spring Institute)
 * Edward Bloomstein (Central Asia Metals Inc.)
 * Andrew Cuthbertson (Rio Tinto)
 * Hulan Dashdavaa (Tavan Bogd Group)
 * Robert Friedland (Ivanhoe Mines)
 * John Gruetzner (Intercedent, Ltd)
 * Frank Herbert (Centerra)
 * Robert J. Madden (Boeing)
 * J. Od (MCS Company)
 * Steve Vaughn (Heenan Blaikie Law Firm)
 * Bruce Wagner (Wagner Equipment)

NAMBC – Headquarters Office
 * Steve Saunders, President

NAMBC – Ulaanbaatar Office
 * Bolorsuvd Tuya (Bolor), Director of Ulaanbaatar Office

Contact

 * Web: http://www.nambc.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Jalsa Urubshurow
 * In 1993: "Richard Gillespie, executive director of the U.S.-Mongolia Business Council, and Bill Valenti, the council's West Coast representative."
 * National Endowment for Democracy: Grants By Country
 * American Center for Mongolian Studies