Altantsetseg Batchuluun joined the NRCC in 2011 as a researcher. Since 2018, she has been working as chief executive officer. Her previous experience includes lecturer, associate professor, and head of the Department of Economics, NUM, between 1995 and 2021. She worked as director of the Economic Institute while she was working at the NUM. She was a member of the policy board for the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Financial Regulatory Committee, board of research methodology for the Institute for Labor and Social Protection Study, and member and chair of the economics doctoral degree committee for the Ministry of Education and Science.

Her research areas of expertise are labor economics, impact evaluation, macroeconomics. She has published her research in World Bank Economic Review, Annals of Economics and Finance, and Review of Development Economics, peer-reviewed economics journals listed in the Web of Science. She introduced a peer review system into the Economics: Theory, Practice journal by the Department of Economics when she was editor of it.

She received many research grants and successfully led the grant projects. Projects include “Inclusive Growth and Labor Market”, by a grant from the Mongolian Science and Technological Fund, “Impacts of Short Term Vocational Training for Youth Unemployment”, by a grant from the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), and “Impacts of Universal Childcare Service on Women’s Employment”, by a grant from the PEP and the World Bank.

Alongside her academic research, her experience in consulting for international organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector is rich. Since 2009, she has worked as team leader for the Consumer Confidence Index survey and expanded it into the countrywide and quarterly survey. She worked as the leader of the national team for T21-Mongolia Macroeconomic Model, National Development and Innovation Committee; Urban Registry Process, Millennium Challenge Account; Impact of Privatization in Mongolia, State Property Committee; technical team member for Mongolian Human Development Report, 2003 and 2009.

She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia, USA, MA in Economics from the University of Manchester, UK, BA from the National University of Mongolia.