Scholar of the Mongolian State.

Dr. Batsaikhan Ookhnoi is a Doctor of Historical Sciences and one of Mongolia's foremost authorities on the country's modern history, with particular expertise in the period of national independence (1911–1924), Mongolian-Soviet relations, and 20th-century Mongolian diplomacy.

He has conducted archival research in Ulaanbaatar, Moscow, Beijing, London, and Tokyo, and has published extensively in both Mongolian and English.