Enkhuun Byambadorj is a prize-winning environmental rights advocate. Witnessing her loved ones suffer from air pollution, she co-founded and is the Executive Director of Breathe Mongolia, a nonprofit working to transform policies, narratives, and sectors to clean our air and protect the climate. Enkhuun has supported her country delegations in the UNFCCC processes for the past three years. She also serves on Mongolia’s National Environmental Youth Council and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air. Enkhuun is an Iris Prize Winner, winner of the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG3, and a Vital Voices Global Fellow. Her work has been featured on The Diplomat, BBC, Bloomberg Mongolia, The Globe and Mail, AFP, The Guardian, and other local media. Through her work, Enkhuun aims to equip communities with the resources to make the right to a clean, healthy, safe, and sustainable environment a reality and to transform the systems that prevent its realization.
Starting in September 2026, Enkhuun is pursuing the Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
