Guðmundur Steingrímsson

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Guðmundur Steingrímsson

Guðmundur Steingrímsson (German transcription Gudmundur Steingrimsson , born October 28, 1972 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic politician ( Björt framtíð ).

Life

His father was the former Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928-2010), his grandfather the politician and two-time Prime Minister of Iceland Hermann Jónasson . Guðmundur studied Icelandic and Philosophy at the University of Iceland from 1992 and received a Masters in Philosophy from Uppsala University in 1998 and a Masters in Philosophy from Oxford University in 2001 .

Since 1992 he has been active in the band Ske , which he co-founded. From 2003 he worked as a journalist for Fréttablaðið and the television station Sirkus, among others .

Political career

He has been a member of the Icelandic parliament Althing since 2009 ; initially for the north-western constituency , since the 2013 elections for the south-western constituency . In parliament, Guðmundur Steingrímsson was a member of the committees for social affairs and social security as well as for transport and communication from 2009 to 2011. From 2011 to 2013 he was a member of the Committee on Welfare, as of 2015 he is a member of the Committee on Justice and Education and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Trade. He has been a member of the Icelandic delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly since 2013 .

Guðmundur Steingrímsson, who was elected to parliament as a member of the Progressive Party but has since left that party, was chairman of Björt framtíð from 2013 to 2015 , which he founded in early 2012 in cooperation with the Besti flokkurinn party, which is active in Reykjavík . In the parliamentary elections in Iceland in 2013 he was elected to Althing for Björt framtíð. He has announced that he will no longer run for the 2016 general election in Iceland .

Web links

Commons : Guðmundur Steingrímsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Æviágrip: Guðmundur Steingrímsson ( Icelandic ) Alþingi. Retrieved December 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Iceland's newest political party gets shiny new name ( English ) In: IceNews . January 7, 2012. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Björt framtíð ( Icelandic ) In: Morgunblaðið . Accessed April 28, 2013 (elected candidates)
  4. ↑ Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson: Metfjöldi þingmanna hættir á Althingi ( Icelandic ) RÚV. August 13, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Guðmundur Steingrímsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic politician ( Björt framtíð )
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík