Naghdalyan was born on 28 July 1960 in
Yerevan. She has a PhD in economics from the Yerevan Institute of National Economy. Naghdalyan was elected to the National Assembly to represent district 49 for the
Republican party in 1995. She is a member of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs and the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs. On 31 May 2012 she was elected Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. In 2014, she became temporary de facto
President of Armenia for three days while President
Serzh Sargsyan and Speaker
Hovik Abrahamyan were out of the country. Naghdalyan was head of the Armenia–US parliamentary friendship group. In 2015, Ambassador
Richard M. Mills, Jr. called for her to step down due to her membership of the Russian 'Griboyedov' Club and she submitted her resignation. Naghdalyan is the head of the Armenian delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) On 25 February 2011 she was elected chair of the PACE committee on Economic Affairs and Development and in January 2016 she became a Vice President of PACE, presiding over the fall session. Naghdalyan is head of the Republican Party Women's Council, which is an elected observer member of the
European People's Party. ==Personal life==