| Order: | 2nd |
| Office: | President of Mongolia |
| Term Start: | 20 June 1997 |
| Term End: | 24 June 2005 |
| Primeminister: | Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
| Predecessor: | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat |
| Successor: | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
| Order2: | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party |
| President2: | Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat |
| Premier2: | Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan |
| Term Start2: | 7 February 1997 |
| Term End2: | 6 June 1997 |
| Predecessor2: | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
| Successor2: | Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
| Order3: | Chairman of the State Great Khural |
| Term Start3: | July 1992 |
| Term End3: | July 1996 |
| Predecessor3: | Radnaasümbereliin Gonchigdorj of Little Khural |
| Successor3: | Radnaasümbereliin Gonchigdorj |
| Birth Date: | 1950 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Yaruu, Zavkhan, Mongolia |
| Birthname: | Нацагийн Багабанди |
| Party: | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party |
| Spouse: | Azadsurengiin Oyunbileg[1] |
Natsagiin Bagabandi (Mongolian: Нацагийн Багабанди; born 22 April 1950) is a Mongolian politician and the director of Oyu Tolgoi LLC.[2] Previously, he was the President of Mongolia from 1997 to 2005, and a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.[3]
He was born on 22 April 1950 in Zavkhan, Mongolia into a peasant family.[4] In 1979 he joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. He studied in Leningrad (Leningrad Technical School of the Refrigeration Industry), Ukraine (Odesa Technological Institute of the Food Industry) and Moscow (Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU), and graduated in Food engineering. In 1987, he received a doctorate in Philosophy.[5] He became Chairman of the State Great Khural, in 1992 for four years,[6] then ran for presidential elections in 1997, winning them. He won re-election in 2001.[7]
In early 1997, he became General Secretary of the MPRP, shortly before the presidential elections, which were held in difficult conditions for the party. After his victory in the 1997 presidential elections, defeating his predecessor Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, he served as president. In the presidential elections on May 22, 2005, Nambaryn Enkhbayar was elected to succeed Natsagiin Bagabandi with 53.4 percent of the vote and took office in June.[8]
He is married with two children.
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