Thordur Fridjonsson (2 January 1952 – 8 February 2011) was an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

ic economist and institutional leader.

Career

Thordur Fridjonsson was chief executive of the NASDAQ OMX Iceland from 2002. Previous positions included being the

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of the National Economic Institute from 1987 and Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (1998–1999). On Iceland’s behalf, Fridjonsson was a member of the Economic Policy Committee at OECD, an Alternate Governor at IMF and EBRD and Chairman of the Nordic Project Fund. Prior to this he was an economic advisor to Prime Minister's Gunnar Thoroddsen (1980–1983) and Steingrimur Hermannsson (1983–1986), lecturer at the Economic Department of the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

(1982–1987) and economist to the Association of Icelandic Manufacturers (Félag íslenskra iðnrekenda) (1978–1980).

Education

Fridjonsson received the MA degree in economics from Queen's University in Canada in 1978 and the Cand.oecon. degree from the University of Iceland in 1977.Viðskipta og hagfræðingatal III, Þjóðsaga, 1997 (in Icelandic).

Publications

Fridjonsson contributed articles on a range of contemporary economic issues in Iceland and edited The Icelandic economy explained (Íslensk haglýsing), 1986, AB, Reykjavík.

References

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