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Mayor Of Reykjavík
The post of Mayor of Reykjavík () was created in 1907 and advertised in 1908. Páll Einarsson and Knud Zimsen applied for the job and Páll got the position for a period of six years, at the end of which he did not wish to renew his tenure. Rather than a direct election, Reykjavík City Council members elect the mayor from within their ranks. Between 1932 and 1994 the centre-right Independence Party dominated Reykjavík municipal politics, but since then other parties have been more competitive. During the 2006-2010 term four people held the mayor position, due to an unprecedented amount of instability in Reykjavík's municipal coalition government caused in part by the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis. The incumbent mayor is Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir, who took office in 2025. Heiða's Social Democratic Alliance currently governs the city as the senior coalition partner with the People's Party, Pirate Party, Left-Green Movement and Socialist Party Socialist Party is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir
Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir (born 21 February 1971) is an Icelandic politician and the Mayor of Reykjavík since 21 February 2025. Heiða served as the vice chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance from February 2017 until October 2022. She is the former chair of the party's women's movement and she is a city councillor in Reykjavík. Political career Heiða was the chair of the Women's Movement in the Social Democratic Alliance from 2013 to 2015. She took a seat on Reykjavík City Council in 2015, where she has been on the executive board of the city. Heiða has been the chair of the Reykjavík Violence Prevention Committee since its establishment, which was approved at a women's celebration meeting of the city council on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage on 31 March 2015. Heiða was second on Samfylkingin's list in the 2018 city council elections, and was elected chair of the Reykjavík Welfare Council at a meeting of the city council on 19 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pétur Halldórsson
Pétur () or Petur is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Petur Alberg (1885–1940), Faroese violin player and songwriter from Tórshavn * Pétur Blöndal (1944–2015), Icelandic congressman in the Icelandic Independence Party * Pétur Eyþórsson (born 1978), glima champion, having won the glima grettisbelt multiple times * Petur Gabrovski (1898–1947), Bulgarian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister during the Second World War * Pétur Guðmundsson (athlete) (born 1962), retired male shot putter from Iceland * Pétur Guðmundsson (basketball) (born 1958), retired Icelandic professional basketball player * Pétur Gunnarsson (born 1947), Icelandic writer from Reykjavík * Petur Hliddal (born 1945), American sound engineer * Pétur Marteinsson (born 1973), retired Icelandic football player * Pétur Ormslev (born 1958), retired football midfielder * Pétur Pétursson (born 1959), retired Icelandic footballer who was active as a forward * Pétur Péturss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir (; born 31 December 1954) is an Icelandic politician from the Social Democratic Alliance who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009) and leader of the Alliance (2005–2009). She served as representative of UN Women in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2014 and later in Turkey as designated Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. Education Sólrún received her bachelor's degree in history and literature from the University of Iceland in 1979. She then studied in Denmark as a guest student of the post -graduate studies in history at the University of Copenhagen (1979-1981). In 1981, she came back to Iceland where she graduated as a cand.mag. in history from University of Iceland in 1983. In addition to her native Icelandic, Sólrún speaks English, French and Danish. Political career Sólrún started her political career in the Women's List (''Samtök um kvennalista''), a party she had co-founded in 1982 and later represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Utrikesminister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir Vid Nordiska Radets Session I Oslo
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Árni Sigfússon
Árni Sigfússon (born 30 July 1956) is the former mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland's capital and of Reykjanesbær (2002 - June 2014). As a city council member since 1986, he stepped in as a mayor in Reykjavík for a few months for his party in 1994 when his party was getting very poor ratings from polls. After his appointment he managed to lead the party to over 47% in the 1994 elections. He was on the board of Heimdallur from 1976 to 1979 and was its chairman from 1981 to 1983. He then later became the chairman of SUS, the youth organisation of the Independence Party. His focus in local government on raising standards of primary education and on new high tech and well paid jobs, has been recognised in Iceland. Before taking on the position as Mayor of Reykjanesbær he was the chief executive of the Icelandic Management Association (Stjórnunarfélagið) and the CEO of the IT company Tæknival. He studied Education at the Educational College of Iceland and Public Administration at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markús Örn Antonsson
Markús Örn Antonsson (born 25 May 1943 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic journalist and politician. He was the Mayor of Reykjavík from 1991 to 1994. Education and journalism career Markús Örn graduated from Reykjavík Junior College in 1965 and was an exchange student in the United States. He worked as a part-time journalist and photographer at the daily ''Morgunblaðið'' from 1961 to 1965 and was trained in broadcast journalism and television production in the UK and Sweden, then worked as a reporter and programme producer at Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) TV. He served as a member of the Broadcasting Council from 1979 to 1985 and as chairman from 1983 to 1985. Markús Örn then served as Director General of the RÚV TV and Radio from 1985 to 1991 and as Director General of RÚV TV and Radio from 1998 to 2005. Political career Markús Örn served as a city councillor in Reykjavík from 1970 to 1985 and was a member of the executive committee of the Reykjavík City Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davíð Oddsson
Davíð Oddsson (pronounced ; born 17 January 1948) is an Icelandic politician, and the longest-serving prime minister of Iceland, in office from 1991 to 2004. From 2004 to 2005 he served as Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Iceland), foreign minister and as the chairman for the Independence Party (Iceland), Independence Party from 1991 to 2005. Previously, he was Mayor of Reykjavík from 1982 to 1991, and chaired the board of governors of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2005 to 2009. The 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis led to vocal demands for his resignation, both from members of the Icelandic public and from the new Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, which resulted in his being replaced as head of the Central Bank in March 2009. In September 2009 he was hired as the editor of ''Morgunblaðið'', one of Iceland's largest newspapers, a decision that caused nationwide controversy and was followed by resignations and widespread terminated subscriptions. He con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egill Skúli Ingibergsson
Egill Skúli Ingibergsson (23 March 1926 – 22 December 2021) was an Icelandic electrical engineer and the Mayor of Reykjavík from 1978 to 1982. Death Egill died on 22 December 2021, at the age of 95, at Landspítalinn's palliative care unit in Kópavogur Kópavogur () is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population. It lies immediately south of Reykjavík and is part of the Capital Region (Iceland), Capital Region. The name literally means ''seal pup inlet''. .... References 1926 births 2021 deaths Egill Skuli Ingibergsson Egill Skuli Ingibergsson Egill Skuli Ingibergsson Egill Skuli Ingibergsson {{engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson
Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson (19 July 1936 – 28 October 2019) was an Icelandic politician and lawyer. He was the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland from 1991 to 2005. Birgir was the mayor of Reykjavík from 1972 to 1978, member of parliament from 1979 to 1991 for the Independence Party, and served as the minister of education An education minister (sometimes minister of education) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with educational matters. Where known, the government department, ministry, or agency that develops policy and deli ... from 1987 to 1988. From 1965 to 1991 he was a board member of the National Power Company of Iceland. References 1936 births 2019 deaths Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson {{Iceland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geir Hallgrímsson
Geir Hallgrímsson (16 December 1925 – 1 September 1990) was the prime minister of Iceland for the Independence Party from 28 August 1974 to 1 September 1978. Before that he had been mayor of Reykjavík from 1959 to 1972. Geir was a member of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing from 1973 to 1983. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1986 and as the Governor of the Central Bank from 1986 to his death in 1990. Early life and education Geir Hallgrímsson was born in Reykjavík and educated at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík and at the University of Iceland, where he studied law; he spent a year in the US at Harvard University, studying law and economics. Career Geir was mayor of Reykjavík from 1959 to 1972. During his term he greatly expanded the city and improved its infrastructure. Under his guidance the geothermal heating system was expanded to the whole city; it had previously only been available to less than half. He also improved the streets by turning the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auður Auðuns
Auður Auðuns (18 February 1911 – 19 October 1999) was an Icelandic lawyer and politician from the Independence Party. She set several records as she became the first Icelandic woman to obtain a law degree, the first female Mayor of Reykjavík and the first female cabinet member in Iceland when she became Minister of Justice and Church in the short-lived 1970–71 cabinet of Jóhann Hafstein. Auður grew up in Isafjördur in the remote Westfjords in North-Western Iceland as the daughter of Margrét Guðrún Jónsdóttir and Jón Auðunn Jónsson, an MP for first the Conservative Party (Iceland), Conservative Party and from 1929 onwards for its successor the Independence Party. At 14 she went to live with relatives in Reykjavík in order to pursue her education. Auður graduated from the prestigious Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1929 and got a law degree A law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law. Some law degrees are professional degrees that are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
