Speaker
Oyun Sanjaasuren
Affliation
Green Climate Fund
Title
Director of Division of External Affairs
Session

Biography

Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren is currently the Director of the Division of External Affairs at the Green Climate Fund. Previously, she was Chairperson of the Global Water Partnership, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to a water-secure world. Oyun Sanjaasuren served as the first President of the United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP and is currently on advisory boards of several international organizations dedicated to sustainable development. She was elected to five terms as a Member of the Parliament of Mongolia (1998-2016) and served as Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Environment and Green Development. One of the leading women figures in Mongolia, she chairs many Mongolian NGOs, including the Zorig Foundation to advance democracy. She also worked on a UNDP project to establish a mineral processing center in Ulaanbaatar. Dr. Oyun graduated from Karlova University in Prague and holds a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Cambridge University, UK.