Drífa Snædal (born 5 June 1973) is an Icelandic trade union leader and politician. She was the president of the

Icelandic Confederation of Labour The Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ) (Icelandic: Alþýðusamband Íslands) is a trade union centre in Iceland. It was formed in 1916 and has a membership of 104,500, approximately half of the Icelandic workforce. The ASÍ is affiliated ...

(ASÍ) (Icelandic: Alþýðusamband Íslands) 2018, until her resignation on August 10, 2022.

Biography

Drífa was born in

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but grew up in

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from the age of four and in

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in Sweden from the age of six to eleven. In 1993, she graduated from Fjölbrautaskólinn in

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with a degree in sociology. She graduated as a technical draftsman from the Reykjavík Vocational School in 1998, from 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 ...

with a business degree in 2003 and with a master's degree in labor market studies with an emphasis on labor law from

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in 2012. Drífa became the director of education and promotion at the Association for Women's Shelters in 2003 and was the executive director of the association from 2004 to 2006. She worked as the executive director of the

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from 2006 to 2010. In 2012, she became the executive director of the Icelandic Trade Union Confederation.

References

1973 births Living people Drifa Snaedal Drifa Snaedal {{Iceland-politician-stub