Speaker
Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikan
Dr. ENKHSAIKHAN is an international lawyer and served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, representing his country in Austria and at the United Nations.
In the early 1990s he served as the foreign policy and legal advisor to the first democratically elected President of Mongolia and later as the Executive Secretary of the first National Security Council of Mongolia when the State Great Hural (parliament) considered and adopted the country’s first concepts of national security and foreign policy in 1994.
In 2013-2014 he served as Ambassador-at-Large in charge of disarmament issues focusing specifically on nuclear-related threat issues. He retired in 2014 after having served for three and a half decades in government agencies and five years in the civil society sector dealing with such issues as promotion of peace, democratic governance, human rights, gender equality and some other issues.
At present Dr. Enkhsaikhan serves as Chairman of Blue Banner, a Mongolian NGO dedicated to promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation and institutionalizing Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status. He is also a co-convenor of the Ulaanbaatar Process, a unique civil society dialogue for peace and stability in Northeast Asia coordinated by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).