Amarjargal was born in
Ulaanbaatar on 27 February 1961. He is fluent in
Mongolian,
Russian, and
English. He attended the
Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in
Moscow from 1978 and earned a bachelor's diploma in financial economics in 1982. From 1981 to 1982, he also attended the Evening University for Marxism–Leninism. After that, Amarjargal worked at the Central Committee of the
Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions. He taught at the
Military Institute from 1983 to 1990, where he rose to the rank of
captain, and at the Technical University from 1990 to 1991. He worked as a director of the Economic College of Mongolia from 1991 to 1996. From 1994 to 1995, he studied at the
University of Bradford in
England and graduated with a Master of Science in Macroeconomic Policy and Planning. During his state visit to England in March 2000, the university awarded him an
honorary doctorate. In 2003, Amarjargal was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Economic Research,
Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He completed a doctor's degree in economic security at the National Intelligence Academy, an affiliate of the
General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia. == Political career ==