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Justine Shanti Alexander
Country Director
Justine Shanti Alexander is the Country Director at WCS Mongolia program. Over the past decade, she has dedicated herself to building partnerships at both national and local levels for the conservation of threatened species across High Asia, with a specific focus on Mongolia and China. Her conservation work revolves around bridging research, community programming, and international collaborations to strengthen conservation outcomes. One issue that holds great significance for her is finding inclusive solutions that prioritize the voices of local stakeholders and place human well-being and community resilience at the heart of wildlife conservation programs. With a scientific academic background, she earned a master's degree in Conservation Science from Imperial College (U.K.) in 2011 and completed a Ph.D. on snow leopard conservation at Beijing Forestry University (China) in 2015.
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Baigalmaa Nyamsambuu
Operations Director
Baigalmaa Nyamsambuu is the Operations Director for the WCS Mongolia program. She holds a Master’s Degree in Agribusiness from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Mongolia. Before joining WCS Mongolia, Baigalmaa accumulated over 10 years of experience working as a Finance Officer for various organizations, including World Learning Mongolia's LEAD Program, the Green Gold project of SDC, and the "Mongolia V.E.T Net" NGO.
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Batbayar Galtbalt
Connectivity and Climate Change Manager
Batbayar Galtbalt is a Wildlife Ecologist at WCS Mongolia program. In this role, he focuses on understanding how wildlife populations, particularly ungulates and birds, are responding to global environmental changes. He completed post-doctoral research at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2024, focusing on the macro-demography of North American birds, following his Ph.D research at Deakin University, Australia in 2022, where he researched the flight behavior and population dynamics of migratory birds. In Mongolia, he has contributed to multiple conservation and research initiatives, including monitoring breeding populations of cranes, leading the saker falcon research and conservation project, implementing the Wildlife Picture Index project across several national parks, and conducting wildlife surveys in the Gobi Desert. His academic foundation includes a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Ecology and Conservation Biology from the National University of Mongolia, completed in 2008.
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Bolortsetseg Sanjaa
Conservation Governance & Community Manager
Bolortsetseg Sanjaa is a Conservation Governance and Community Manager at WCS Mongolia Program. She completed her first Masters Degree in Biology at the National University of Mongolia, and her second Master’s Degree in Art Communication and Conservation Leadership at the El Paso University of Texas. She spent four seasons working as a wildlife biologist on the Mongolian gazelle research project. Between 2009-2012, she worked as the conservation biologist for the Mongolia Program and managed a social marketing campaign in Eastern Mongolia. In recent years her work has focused on engaging herder communities to conserve wildlife in a grassland ecosystem. Her most recent campaign was focused on improving hunting permit compliance in Eastern Mongolia through public awareness, education and behavior change activities.
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Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar
Senior Scientist
Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar (Buuvei) is a Senior Scientist with the WCS Mongolia Program, leading science-based efforts to conserve Mongolia’s nomadic ungulates and protect the country’s desert–steppe ecosystems. For over a decade, he has worked to integrate ecological research, landscape-scale wildlife monitoring, and policy engagement to maintain connectivity across the Gobi–Steppe. He completed his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), where he studied the distribution, population dynamics, and conservation challenges of khulan, Mongolian gazelle, goitered gazelle, and saiga antelope. Before joining WCS in 2011, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, contributing to national ungulate surveys and long-term ecological monitoring. His interests include wildlife biology, movement ecology, human–wildlife interactions, and connectivity conservation. Buuvei also serves as a member of the IUCN SSC Equid Specialist Group, the IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group, and as the CMS Scientific Councillor for Mongolia.
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Mendbaatar Osorjin
Lead Technical Advisor
Mr Mendbaatar Osorjin is Lead Technical Advisor for the Conservation of Khangai landscape, WCS Mongolia. He holds a Master of Business administration and Ecology from the National University of Mongolia. Over decades of experience in leading community based natural resource management, rangeland management, sustainable forest and land management, wildlife conservation, protected areas management, Illegal wildlife trade, Environment and social impact assessment (ESIA), environment and social management framework. Before joining the WCS Mongolia, Mr Mendbaatar is worked with the different Donor organizations including GIZ, UNDP, SDC, ADB, World Bank and Millennium Challenge Account First and Second compacts.
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