Ulaanbaatar / Under the theme ‘Responsive and Responsible Leadership’, the 2017 World Economic Forum is set to open tomorrow, January 17 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland gathering about 3000 participants from more than 100 countries, and Mongolia sends two official delegates.
This year, President Ts.Elbegdorj who has been constantly participating since 2010 is accompanied by Undral Amarsaikhan, who has been chosen to represent Global Shapers Community which selects about 50 young leaders to contribute to the agenda of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
A.Undral is one of the founders of Mongolian online news platform ‘Unread’ which is dedicated to people who aspire to be creative and productive. The platform uses an interesting approach to online journalism with one, exclusive content being posted per day.
The ‘Unread’ unveils attention-worthy stories and headlines through their regular 7 columns designated for each day of week - ‘Business in the spotlight’ on Monday, ‘Application Overview’ on Tuesday, ‘How I work’ on Wednesday’, ‘Worth Knowing Website’ on Thursday, ‘Random’ on Friday, ‘Book Review’ on Saturday and ‘Overview’ on Sunday.
The first Mongolian delegation to partake in the World Economic Forum was led by the then First Deputy Prime Minister D.Ganbold in 1991. Afterwards, Mongolia participated in the forum on a head of government level in respective years 1997, 1998, and 2001 to 2003. And in 2009, Mongolia was represented by N.Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia for the first time. Since 2010, President Ts.Elbegdorj has been participating in the forum every year.