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| Uchral in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister of Mongolia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 31 March 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Gombojavyn Zandanshatar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman of the State Great Khural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 20 November 2025 –30 March 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Dashzegviin Amarbayasgalan Jadambyn Bat-Erdene (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Sandagiin Byambatsogt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman of the Mongolian People's Party | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 15 November 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the State Great Khural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | 72nd,Songinokhairkhan district (2016–2020) 28th,Songinokhairkhan district (2020–2024) 9th,Chingeltei,Sükhbaatar district (2024–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 2 January 1987 (age 39) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Mongolian People's Party (since 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | uchral | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nyam-Osoryn Uchral [a] (born 2 January 1987) is a Mongolian politician and businessman who has been the prime minister of Mongolia [1] since 31 March 2026 and the Chairman of the Mongolian People's Party since 15 November 2025. A member of the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), he was elected a member of the State Great Khural in 2016, 2020, and 2024. [2] Uchral was previously appointed the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene following the 2024 parliamentary elections. [3] Uchral rose to national prominence in November 2025 when he was elected leader of the MPP [4] and speaker of the State Great Khural at the age of 38. [5] His elevation occurred in the aftermath of a managed party congress that ended months of internal deadlock between MPP factions. [6]
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar on 27 March 2026, the Executive Council of the MPP officially nominated Uchral as the next Prime Minister of Mongolia on 29 March 2026. [7] He was elected (88–19) as the 33rd Prime Minister of Mongolia by the State Great Khural on 30 March 2026. [1] The subsequent midnight, he officially succeeded Zandanshatar. [8] He has served as President of the Social Democracy–Mongolian Youth Federation, the youth wing of the MPP, since 2019, [9] and has been a member of the IPU's Standing Committee on United Nations Affairs. [10] Uchral is the heir of the Khunnu group companies, which owns Ikh Zasag International University and other businesses in Mongolia. [11]
Uchral was born in Ulaanbaatar on 2 January 1987 [12] as the eldest child of Namsraigiin Nyam-Osor and Jambalyn Tsetsegmaa. [13] He attended the 97th secondary school and Ikh Zasag Lyceum, where he completed his upper secondary education in 2003. He earned a B.A. in law at Ikh Zasag International University, a university founded by his father, in 2007, and an MBA degree at the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2010. Uchral also earned a master's degree in historical sciences at Mongolian State University of Education in 2012 and a PhD in historical sciences at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013. In 2019 he obtained a master's in international business from the University of Gloucestershire [2] After arriving in Mongolia, he founded the Royal International University. [14]
Uchral joined the Mongolian People's Party (MPP) in 2009 and became an active member of the party's youth wing, the Social Democracy-Mongolian Youth Federation. [14] [15]
In 2012, he joined the organization's governing board and was appointed as a director of the "Social Democracy" training center. Between 2012 and 2016, he was a citizen's representative of Bayanzurkh District in Ulaanbaatar. He served as a director of the Political Department of the MPP between 2012 and 2014. Moreover, he supervised the MPP's public relations and media team for the 2012 capital election and the 2013 presidential election. In 2015, he worked as an advisor of public relations for Deputy Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, and then was appointed as an advisor of the MPP caucus in the State Great Khural. [16]
In the 2016 parliamentary election, Uchral was elected to the State Great Khural from the 72nd Songinokhairkhan District constituency. He was a member of the parliamentary standing committees on Legal Affairs and Social Policy, Education, Culture, and Science. He was also the chairman of a temporary committee on digital policy, which he initiated and created by the State Great Khural in 2017. He led a lobby group for innovation, composed of five MPs. [17] [18] In the 2020 parliamentary election and the 2024 parliamentary election, Uchral was re-elected as MP. [19] [2]
Following party turmoil in late 2025, a renewed opposition boycott, and external economic uncertainties, incumbent prime minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar submitted his resignation on 27 March 2026 to the ruling party's highest decision-making body and the parliament of Mongolia. [15] His resignation was accepted by the State Great Khural on the same day. [20] Party chairman Uchral was among the likely candidates to succeed Zandanshatar. [15]
On 29 March 2026, Uchral was unanimously selected as the MPP's nominee for Prime Minister. [21] [7] His nomination is seen as a move toward political stability and market-oriented reform. [7] As the parliamentary speaker and party chairman, he is following the established convention of the ruling party leader serving as head of government. The following day, on 30 March, he was appointed the 33rd Prime Minister of Mongolia by the State Great Khural, with 88 out of the 107 lawmakers voting in favor. [1] In his inaugural speech, Uchral talked about deregulation and market liberalization. [22] He formally succeeded caretaker prime minister Zandanshatar at midnight. [8]
On 3 April 2026, Prime Minister Nyam-Osoryn Uchral named his cabinet with a core message of stability, policy continuity, and economic liberation. [23] His coalition government between the MPP, the HUN Party, and the National Coalition retained the previous structure of 19 ministers and included 8 incumbents who were reappointed. [24]