Robert Ritz

Robert Ritz is President of AUM and brings over a decade of experience living and working in Ulaanbaatar. He combines his academic foundation in political science with hands-on expertise in data analysis, systems building, and emerging AI technologies. He is an active entrepreneur and co-founder of several Mongolian businesses including Kraft (a cut-to-measure furniture manufacturer), Data.mn (statistical insights on Mongolia), and MongolBeat (a Mongolian news aggregator in English).

AI-assisted software development and agentic programming; Mongolian economic data and statistics (Data.mn); machine translation and Mongolian-language NLP (MongolBeat)