Undraa Agvaanluvsan

Dr. Undraa Agvaanluvsan is a Member of Parliament in Mongolia and has previously served as an Ambassador-at-Large for nuclear security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this role, her portfolio included nuclear security issues,  the nuclear fuel cycle, and the policy on developing uranium and rare-earth mineral resources.

Beyond her government work, Dr. Undraa served as the president of the Mitchell Foundation for Arts and Sciences. She is also an Asia21 Fellow with the Asia Society and co-chairs the Mongolia chapter of the Women Corporate Directors, a global organization supporting women on corporate boards. Currently, she is serving on the International Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University.

A nuclear physicist by training, Dr. Undraa earned her PhD from North Carolina State University and holds a diploma in High Energy Physics from the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. She has conducted research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and taught energy policy at Stanford University’s International Policy Studies Program, where she was also a Science Fellow and Visiting Professor at CISAC. As a scientist, Dr. Undraa has published extensively on neutron and proton-induced nuclear reactions, nuclear level density, radiative strength function, quantum chaos, and the Random Matrix Theory, including its applications in electric grid networks.