Frosti Sigurjónsson

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Frosti Sigurjónsson (2013)

Frosti Sigurjónsson (born December 19, 1962 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic businessman and politician ( Progress Party ).

Life

Frosti holds an MBA from London Business School (1991). He was CEO of various Icelandic companies, including CCP Games from 1999 to 2005 . In 2005 he co-founded the travel search engine Dohop , where he served as managing director until 2010 and then as chairman of the board. He was also a co-founder and, from 2009 to 2013, CEO of DataMarket , an information visualization company.

Since the Icelandic parliamentary election on April 27, 2013 , Frosti was a member of the Icelandic parliament Althing for the constituency of Reykjavík North . He was chairman of the parliamentary committee on economic affairs and trade and a member of the committee on foreign affairs. Frosti Sigurjónsson had announced that he would not run for the general election in Iceland in 2016 . In fact, he was on the list of the Progressive Party for the constituency of Reykjavík North, but in the last place on the list. The Progress Party could no longer win seats in this constituency.

In 2017 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Iceland .

Reform of the Icelandic monetary system

In spring 2015, Frosti Sigurjónsson was commissioned by the then Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson , to find out why the financial crisis of 2008–2011 hit Iceland particularly hard. In his investigation, Frosti comes to the conclusion that the central problem lies in the creation of money via the bank money . Frosti Sigurjónsson advocates control of the money supply by the states. This corresponds to the goals pursued by the Association for Monetary Modernization of the Swiss Hansruedi Weber .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson: Metfjöldi þingmanna hættir á Althingi ( Icelandic ) RÚV. August 13, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Auglýsing landskjörstjórnar um framboð í Reykjavíkurkjördæmi norður við alþingiskosningar October 29, 2016 ( Icelandic ) Innanríkisráðuneytið (Icelandic Ministry of the Interior). Archived from the original on November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson: þessi taka á saeti thingi ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . October 30, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Þórunn Elísabet Bogadóttir: Frosti, Sigurður Kári og Þór Saari í bankaráð Seðlabankans ( Icelandic ) In: Kjarninn . April 25, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  5. ↑ Monetary Reform - A better monetary system for Iceland Edition 1.0 March 2015 Reykjavik - ICELAND © 2015 Frosti Sigurjónsson
  6. ^ Taking the power away from the banks. In: www.tea-after-twelve.com. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Mark Schieritz: Frosti against the old money. Die Zeit, October 22, 2015, pp. 28–29.
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personal data
SURNAME Frosti Sigurjónsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic politician (Progress Party)
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík