Khajidsuren Bolormaa
{{short description|Mongolian mineralogist}}
{{Expand Azerbaijani|Hacidsurenqiyn Bolormaa|date=September 2016}}
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{{small|Хажидсүрэн Болормаа}}
| image = Khajidsurengiin Bolormaa.jpg
| order = First Lady of Mongolia
| term_label = In role
| term_start = June 18, 2009
| term_end = July 10, 2017
| predecessor = Onongiin Tsolmon
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| president = Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|1|18}}
| birth_place = Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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| spouse = Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
| children = 4 Sons
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Khajidsuren Bolormaa, or Khajidsurengiin Bolormaa, ({{Langx|mn|Хажидсүрэнгийн Болормаа}}; born January 18, 1965) is a Mongolian mineralogical engineer, as well as a healthcare and children's rights advocate, who served as the First Lady of Mongolia from 2009 to 2017.{{cite news|title=Mongolia's first lady talks family values |url=http://www.theworldfolio.com/interviews/bolormaa-khajidsuren-mongolian-first-lady-n2653/2653/ |work=The Worldfolio |date=2013 |access-date=2016-09-04}}{{cite news|first=Alan J. K. |last=Sanders|title=Historical Dictionary of Mongolia, 3rd edition - page 232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JN83EDDLl4C&q=Khajidsurengiin+Bolormaa+born&pg=PA232 |work=Google Books |date=2010-05-20 |isbn=9780810874527|access-date=2016-09-04}} Bolormaa is the wife of former President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. In 2006, Bolormaa founded the Bolor Foundation, which cares for orphans in Mongolia.
Biography
Bolormaa was born on January 18, 1965, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.{{cite news|title=Dünyanın ən çoxuşaqlı BİRİNCİ LEDİSİ - prezidentin xanımı 30 uşağın anasıdır |url=http://modern.az/articles/44076/1/#gsc.tab=0 |work=modern.az |date=2013-06-09 |access-date=2016-09-05|language=az}} She graduated high school in Mongolia. She then enrolled at Lviv State University in Lviv, Ukrainian S.S.R. (present-day Ukraine), from 1983 to 1988 to study geochemistry. Bolormaa met her future husband, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, while both were students living in Lviv. The couple married and had their first son, who was born in Lviv. They returned to Mongolia in 1988.
Khajidsurengiin Bolormaa worked as a mineralogical engineer for the government-run Central Geological Laboratory of Mongolia. She then established and opened Ankh-Erdene, a private research laboratory focusing on mineralogy and the Mongolia's mining industry.{{cite news |title=Bolormaa Khajidsuren, First Lady of Mongolia |url=http://www.president.mn/eng/president/first-lady.php |work=Office of the President of Mongolia |access-date=2016-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918232054/http://www.president.mn/eng/president/first-lady.php |archive-date=2017-09-18 |url-status=dead }}
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj was elected president in 2009, making Bolormaa the First Lady of Mongolia. Elbegdorj was re-elected in 2013.
In March 2010, First Lady Bolormaa established the Hope Cancer-free Mongolia National Foundation to improve cancer treatment services in the country.{{cite news|title=Scientific Forum: Interview with Khajidsuren Bolormaa |url=https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/videos/scientific-forum-interview-khajidsuren-bolormaa |work=International Atomic Energy Agency |date=2010-09-22 |access-date=2016-09-05}} She called for increased cooperation between 38 Asian First Ladies [https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/videos/scientific-forum-interview-khajidsuren-bolormaa Scientific Forum: Interview with Khajidsuren Bolormaa] to fight cancer on the continent, especially among women. The foundation retrained Mongolian doctors, nurses and other staff at both domestic and international medical facilities between 2010 and 2013.
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Category:First ladies of Mongolia
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Category:People from Ulaanbaatar
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