Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir (born November 30, 1990 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party and since September 6, 2019 Iceland's Minister of Justice.
Áslaug Arna holds a master's degree in law from the University of Iceland (2017) and worked as a journalist for the Icelandic daily Morgunblaðið from 2011 to 2013 . From 2014 to 2015 she worked as a police officer in the South Urland region and since 2015 as General Secretary of the Independence Party. Since 2011 she has been on the board of the Association of Young Members of the Independence Party.
Since the Icelandic parliamentary election on October 29, 2016 , Áslaug Arna has been a member of the Icelandic parliament Althing for the constituency of Reykjavík-Nord . From 2017 to 2019 she was chair of the Icelandic delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union . In 2017 she was also chair of the Icelandic delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly .
On September 6, 2019, she took over the office of Icelandic Minister of Justice, which has been since the resignation of Sigríður Á. Andersen temporarily held Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir in March 2019 . This makes Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir the second youngest minister in Icelandic history, after Eysteinn Jónsson , who became Minister of Finance in 1934 at the age of 27.
Web links
- Website of Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir (Isl., Engl., Polish.)
- Profile on the homepage of the Icelandic Parliament (isl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir ( Icelandic ) Althingi. September 15, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
- ^ Vala Hafstað: Second Youngest Minister in Icelandic History ( English ) In: Iceland Monitor . mbl.is. September 6, 2019. Accessed September 24, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic Independence Party politician, Minister of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reykjavík |