Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson

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Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson (born March 28, 1977 on the Brúarland farm in the Mýrar district , today in the Borgarbyggð municipality ) is an Icelandic environmental manager and politician. He is deputy chairman of the Left-Green movement . Since November 30, 2017 he has been Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources in the Katrín Jakobsdóttir cabinet .

Life

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson holds a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Iceland and a Masters Degree in Environmental Management from Yale University . From 2011 to 2017 he was the managing director of the Icelandic nature conservation organization Landvernd . He has been a visiting professor at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Agricultural College and the University Center of the Westfjords . In addition, he worked as a park ranger every summer for several years . He was a co-founder of the Icelandic Environmental Scientists Association and its president from 2007 to 2010.

In the coalition of the Left-Green Movement, the Independence Party and the Progress Party , which was formed after the early parliamentary elections in 2017 , Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson was appointed Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, without being a member of the Icelandic parliament Althing . In October 2019, he became vice chairman of the Left-Green movement.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geir Finnsson: Five Women, Six Men in New Cabinet ( English ) In: Iceland Review . November 30, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Sunna Kristín Hilmarsdóttir: Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson verður ráðherra utan þings ( Icelandic ) In: Vísir . November 30, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson nýr varaformaður Vinstri grænna ( Icelandic ) Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð. October 19, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
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personal data
SURNAME Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic environmental manager and politician (left-green movement)
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgarbyggð