Gürsediin Saikhanbayar

Lieutenant general
Gürsediin Saikhanbayar
Гүрсэдийн Сайханбаяр
Saikhanbayar in 2021
Minister of Defense
In office
8 July 2020  10 July 2024
Preceded byNyamaagiin Enkhbold
Personal details
BornJuly 4, 1968
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian People's Republic
Political partyMongolian People's Party
Children2
OccupationPolitician, Public Administration Manager, Military Officer
AwardsHonorary Medal of Military Service (1999)
Order of Military Merit
Medal of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Great Mongolia (2006)
Order of the Red Banner of Military Merit (2015)

Gürsediin Saikhanbayar (Mongolian: Гүрсэдийн Сайханбаяр) is a Mongolian politician, public administration manager and military officer who has been the Minister of Defense of Mongolia since 2020. He is the 36th minister since the establishment of the ministry in 1911 and the 17th since the end of communism in 1990. He holds the rank of Lieutenant general, awarded to him in 2022.