Name:  SOYOLGEREL Nyamjav

Areas of expertise:

External environment of Mongolia’s security, Regionalism, National identity, Regional multilateral mechanisms

Biography:

Soyolgerel Nyamjav is a Senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies, National Security Council of Mongolia. Soyolgerel’s research focuses on the security studies especially Mongolia’s security environment, geopolitical situation, Central Asian regional problems and regional multilateral mechanisms.  

She did her B.A. and M.A. in Political sciences at the National University of Mongolia. Soyolgerel is currently working toward his PhD in the department of Security Studies at the Mongolian National Defense University (MNDU) as well. Also she completed the Advanced Security Cooperation course (Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, USA) and Program on Applied Security Studies (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies). Soyolgerel has been a visiting fellow at the East West Center in Washington DC.

She has co-author a number of books, among them “Mongolia’s Third Neighbor Policy: Possibilities for Triple Cooperation” (2017) and “Eurasian Geopolitics and Mongolia” (2016) and has over 30 publications in various journals and chapters in books. Soyolgerel has presented papers at conferences both home and abroad.  She is a board member of  the “Mongolian Association for International Studies” an expert group devoted to the study of the Mongolian foreign policy issues and national security.