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Sigríður Ásdís Snævarr
Sigríður Ásdís Snævarr (born 23 June 1952) is an Icelandic diplomat and was the first woman to be appointed as an ambassador by Iceland, serving as ambassador to Sweden from 1991 to 1996. Education Sigríður was a fellow at Harvard Russian Research Center and holds a teaching diploma in Italian from Perugia University, a B.Sc.Econ in Economic International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. Professional life Sigríður joined the Icelandic foreign service in 1978 and started her diplomatic career in the Soviet Union in 1979 at the height of the Cold War. She served as counsellor at the embassy of Iceland in Bonn, before she broke ground being the first Icelandic woman to be appointed as ambassador, in 1991. She has served as Iceland's ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, France, Italy, Spain, and Portuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perugia University
The University of Perugia (Italian language, Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public university in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale. The official seal of the university depicts Herculanus of Perugia, Saint Herculan, one of the patron saints, and the rampant crowned griffin, which is the city symbol; they represent the ecclesiastical and civil powers, respectively, which gave rise to the university in the Middle Ages. History One of the "free" universities of Italy, it was elevated into a ''studium generale'' on September 8, 1308, by the Bull "Super specula" of Clement V. A school of arts existed by about 1200, in which medicine and law were soon taught, with a strong commitment expressed by official documents of the City Council of Perugia. Before 1300 there were several ''universitates scholiarum''. Jacobus de Belviso, a famous civil jurist, taught here from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |