Short Bio
Otgontuya Davaanyam is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Her research examines corporate accountability, access to remedy, and responsible business conduct (RBC), with particular attention to OECD National Contact Point cases, human rights due diligence, and environmental responsibility. She holds law degrees from Shihihutug University, the University of Liverpool, and Swansea University, and recently completed her PhD at FAU. Her doctoral monograph, Conceptualising Corporate Human Rights and Environmental Responsibilities: A Bottom-Up Analysis through OECD Case Law, was published by Springer in May 2026. She is co-editor of the open-access volume Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law and co-author of the National Baseline Assessment for Business and Human Rights Mongolia, produced under the Mongolian Government–UNDP “NAP on Business and Human Rights” project. Her scholarship has been recognised through the Hodgson Law Scholarship and the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Scholarship. She currently leads the UKRI-funded research project Environmental Governance, Extractivism, and Geopolitical Dependence in Mongolia: Soviet Legacies, Chinese and Russian Influence, and the Prospects for a Just Transition. Building on this work, her research increasingly engages with the lived experiences of Mongolian nomadic herders, examining how mining, just transition, and corporate responsibility shape land, culture, and the rights of Indigenous women.
Otgontuya’s current research examines extractivism, environmental governance, and corporate accountability in Mongolia. Her UKRI-funded project situates the country’s resource economy within Soviet legacies and Chinese-Russian influence, asking how these dependencies shape prospects for a just transition. Drawing on summer fieldwork in the Gobi and an ecofeminist reading of Nancy Fraser’s redistribution-recognition-representation framework, she will analyse the gendered impacts of mining on nomadic herders—foregrounding the disproportionate burdens borne by Indigenous women. Bridging international human rights law, business and human rights, and political economy, her other work interrogates the “gender dimension” in responsible business conduct, access to remedy, and environmental governance.
Books
- Davaanyam, O. Conceptualising the Corporate Human Rights and Environmental Responsibilities: A Bottom-Up Analysis through OECD Case Law. Springer, April 2026.
- Davaanyam, O. and Krajewski, M. (eds.) Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law. Springer, January 2025.
Articles:
- Davaanyam, O. ‚Corporate Environmental Responsibility under the OECD Guidelines: Integrating Human Rights and Environmental Impacts into Unified HRDD Frameworks‘. Environmental Rights Review 3(1), June 2026
- Davaanyam, O. and Shurka, B. ‚Voices from the Gobi: Centring Indigenous Women in the Global Standards on Corporate Responsibility for Indigenous Peoples‘, in D. A. Pamplona, C. Olarte-Bácares and O. Uvarova (eds.), Business and Human Rights from the Lens of Women. Springer Nature, December 2025.
- Davaanyam, O. ‚Articulating Responsibility for Human Rights and the Environment in the Financial Sector: Outlook on the Concrete Cases of the OECD National Contact Points‘, in O. Davaanyam and M. Krajewski (eds.), Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law. Springer, January 2025.
- Margaret-Brent Preiz for the best post-doctoral project (law faculty) 2026
- UKRI Network Plus Research Fellow, „Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China, and Eurasia in Transition“, 2026
- Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Scholar (Fully Funded), Swansea University, 2020
- Hodgson Law Scholar (Fully Funded), University of Liverpool, 2018