Puresuren Tseveg | Mongolia

PUREVSUREN  Tseveg is a Project / Program  Specialist for  the Research and Innovation Department at the National University of Mongolia (NUM).

 At NUM, Purevsuren conducts a variety of complex and independent investigations in the development and implementation of original experimental procedures within the overall scope of the research management system. She is responsible for the science communication, domestication, testing and correction of the Research Management System, and to renew and upgrade current research and project management activities.

With more than 10 years’ experience in the sector, Purevsuren has worked on numerous internationally funded projects including as National Expert for the Animal Health and Livestock Marketing project funded by European Union and projects funded by JICA, ADB, USAID and UNDP.

Purevsuren is a Board Member of the Centre for Nomadic Society (CFNS), a Mongolian NGO that supports rural communities to mobilize resources to meet their economic and social needs and by extension, to provide a better quality of life for rural residents.

CFNS works with individual provinces to diversify and strengthen rural businesses critical to Mongolia's agriculture sector thereby helping individuals, families and communities to become more self-sufficient, and better linked to both value-added processors and local, regional and national markets. An important aspect of this works includes enhancing the ability of rural communities to make informed economic and social decisions and to empower them to participate in public sector decision-making from the local to the national level.

Purevsuren obtained a Bachelor of Economics-Management and a Master of Business Administration at the Mongolian State University of Agriculture. She is now enrolled in a PhD, through which her thesis project is part of a larger study focusing upon tendencies in cashmere sector’s competitiveness based on cluster approaches.

As an agricultural researcher, she is driven to support a sustainable approach to agricultural development in Mongolia so that her country may build a solid foundation for future prosperity and wellbeing. Her focus is upon helping Mongolia to strategically shift away from mining and towards the development of more sustainable, value-add industries for both the domestic and international markets.