S. MANDUHAI, the director of Nomadic Journeys, controls all tour operations and logistics from our office, located in downtown Ulaanbaatar. She's a graduate of Moscow University.
		JAN WIGSTEN is Swedish and our main contact abroad. He works from the office of Eco Tour Production Ltd. in Sweden and migrates out to Mongolia every summer, when operations are in full swing. Jan has worked in long haul travel since 1978, and came out to Mongolia the first time as a tour leader way back in 1980. Jan has since been a regular professional visitor to Mongolia and he has also managed expeditions throughout the Andes, the Amazon, the Himalayas and the three Guianas. In the winter period he is engaged in ecotourism advisory consulting, lending himself to communities, the Sami reindeer people of Sweden and other international funding agencies. He is an advisory board member of The International Ecotourism Society. www.ecotourism.org
		BATBADRAKH and BATTSENGEL are the adult sons of one of the most famous horsetrainers of Mongolia. They are both born and bred in the Mongolian equestrian tradition, the same that brought the Huns and Genghis Khan´s troops all the way to Europe. Badrakh has been to Japan several times, to help train race horses there. They organize some of our Horse Trail Journeys with their own horses and by doing so, it benefits their continued involvement in Mongolian horse racing. They also organize our camel treks with camels, people and horses from their family. In our camel trek area they are related to a third of all people living there.
		MARK JOHNSTAD, is a native of Montana (USA).  Mark is an "old Mongolia hand".  He started working here in 1991 by helping to design and establish the country's current system of protected areas.  From 1993 to 1995, he managed the Mongolia Biodiversity Project, one of the world's first UNDP/GEF programs.  Over the years, Mark has explored nearly every corner of Mongolia by jeep, horse, camel and boat.  In 1995, he completed an epic 1,200 kilometer, fifteen weeks, unsupported horse trek from Lake Baikal to to the west of Mongolia.  Currently Mark travels around the globe supporting a wide variety of conservation programs in some of the world's wildest places. Mark continues to visit us every summer to lead a few of the specialty natural history and fly fishing trips that really explore the best Mongolia can offer.