Ólöf Nordal (3 December 1966 – 8 February 2017) was an Icelandic politician who was the Minister of the Interior of Iceland from 4 December 2014 to 11 January 2017. She died on 8 February 2017. She was a member of the Independence Party.

Early life

Ólöf graduated from Reykjavík Upper Secondary School in 1986. She received a law degree from the

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in 1994 and an

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from

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in 2002.

Career

Ólöf worked as a teacher, lawyer, and in the administration prior to entering politics. She served as a department head in the Ministry of Transport and Communications from 1996 through 1999. Thereafter, she worked as a lawyer for the

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from 1999 until 2001, and as an instructor of law at Bifröst University from 1999 until 2002, where she chaired the Business Law Department. Between 2002 and 2004, she served as head of wholesale business at

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and director of sales at

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– Iceland State Electricity. During her tenure at

, electricity sales were transferred to a separate company, Orkusalan, where Ólöf served as managing director until 2006. Ólöf was elected to the

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in 2007. She was a Member of Parliament for the

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from 2007 to 2009 and for the

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from 2009 to 2013.

Panama Papers

Ólöf appeared in the leaked

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in connection with offshore holdings. She was quoted as saying that she was "utterly surprised our names are on that list."

Personal life

She was married to Tómas Már Sigurðsson and had four children. She died of cancer on 8 February 2017, aged 50.

References

External links

Althing biography
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