[2] An economist, Byambasüren served as the chief of the State Statistical Office and the Institute of Management, although his influence initially waned after the fall of his mentor Jambyn Batmönkh.
[3] His ministry was noted as reforming[4] but also as something of a technocracy, featuring a number of former communists who had altered their positions to suit the new mood of the country.
[2] He went on to form his own pro-democracy group, the Mongolian Democratic Renaissance Party (Mongolyn Ardqilsan Särgään Mandalyn Nam), in 1994.
[2] Later Byambasüren was at the forefront of campaigns to stop archaeologists from digging for the remains of Genghis Khan.
Byambasüren attacked both the desecration of sacred ground that the digging caused and the private funding of the initiatives.