Halla Tómasdóttir

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Halla Tómasdóttir (born October 11, 1968 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic businesswoman and was a candidate in the 2016 presidential election in Iceland .

Life

Halla Tómasdóttir grew up in Kópavogur . She lived for ten years in the United States , where she worked for companies such as Mars and PepsiCo , and almost two years in the United Kingdom and Denmark . She holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale , a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona .

From 2006 to 2007 Halla was General Director of the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce (Viðskiptaráð Íslands) . In 2007 she founded the finance and investment company Audur Capital (Icelandic Auður Capital ) with banker Kristín Pétursdóttir , which claimed to bring “female values” into the financial world and to invest in sustainable projects. After the outbreak of Iceland's financial crisis in 2008-2011 , Audur Capital was one of the few companies in the Icelandic financial sector that was still making profits. Halla Tómasdóttir and Kristín Pétursdóttir received a Cartier Women's Initiative Award for the project in 2009 . In 2014 Audur Capital merged with the financial services provider Virðing, which was founded in 1999 .

Personal

Halla lives in Kópavogur with her husband and two children. In addition to her native Icelandic language, Halla Tómasdóttir speaks fluent English and also speaks Spanish, German and the Scandinavian languages .

Presidential candidacy

In March 2016, Halla Tómasdóttir announced that she would run for the presidential election. According to the website for her campaign, she wants to work for a just society in which “people and nature come first”. In election polls, support for Halla Tómasdóttir was in the single-digit percentage range for a long time, but had increased again in the weeks before the election date and was given in an evaluation of several polls from June 5, 2016 at 7.5%. According to a survey by the University of Iceland's Social Science Research Institute (Félagsvísindastofnun HÍ), the results of which were published on June 13, support for Halla had risen to 12.3%. In a survey by the MMR institute carried out from April 22nd to 26th (when the incumbent President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was still considered a candidate and Guðni Th. Jóhannesson had not yet announced his candidacy), it had already achieved 8.8% .

With 27.9% of the vote, Halla Tómasdóttir was in second place in the election results after election winner Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (39.1%). In view of the polls, this result was considered surprising. Most recently, polls had forecast no more than 18.6% for Halla Tómasdóttir.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frambjóðendur til kjörs forseta Íslands 2016 ( Icelandic ) Ministry of Interior of Iceland (Innanríkisráðuneytið). Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b About Halla ( English ) Halla Tómasdóttir. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d Halla Tómasdóttir: Ferilskrá (curriculum vitae) ( Icelandic , PDF) Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Manfred Ertel: Iceland Crisis: Women reach for power . In: Spiegel Online . April 22, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  5. ^ Halla Tómasdóttir & Kristin Pétursdóttir: Audur Capital, Iceland ( English ) Cartier Women's Initiative Awards. 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ About Virðing ( English ) Virðing. Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  7. ↑ Halla Tómasdóttir BYDUR sig fram ( Icelandic ) In: mbl.is . March 17, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ About Halla ( English ) Halla Tómasdóttir. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016: “I want to live in a society that puts people and nature first. A just society that values ​​integrity and assumes leadership when it comes to equality, education and entrepreneurship. "
  9. ↑ Fylgi Við Höllu Tómasdóttur tekur á rás ( Icelandic ) Kjarninn. June 5, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  10. ↑ Halla bætir við sig mestu fylgi ( Icelandic ) mbl.is. June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  11. ↑ Fylgi forsetaframbjóðenda ( Icelandic ) MMR. April 27, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  12. ^ A b Vala Hafstad: Woman who Defied the Polls ( English ) In: Iceland Review . June 27, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 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 Halla Tómasdóttir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION icelandic businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík