Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
- Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Infobox Minister
name = Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
order = Foreign Minister of Iceland
president = Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
term_start = 24 May 2007
predecessor = Valgerður Sverrisdóttir
office2 = Mayor of Reykjavík
term_start2 = 13 June 1994
term_end2 = 1 February 2003
predecessor2 = Árni Sigfússon
successor2 = Þórólfur Árnason
birth_date = birth date and age|1954|12|31|df=y
birth_place = Reykjavík, Iceland
spouse = Hjörleifur Sveinbjörnsson
alma_mater = University of Iceland
University of Copenhagen
party = Social Democratic Alliance
Early life
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir is born in Reykjavik on December 31 1954, the daughter of salesman Gísli Gíslason (born November 30 1916, died October 23 2006) and homemaker Ingibjörg J. Níelsdóttir (born February 23 1918).
Education
Ingibjörg Sólrún received her bachelor's degree in history and literature from the University of Iceland in 1979. Then she went to Denmark to study as a guest student at the University of Copenhagen. In 1981 she came back to Iceland where she graduated as a cand.mag. in history from University of Iceland in 1983.
Political career
Current Chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance ("Samfylkingin"), the second largest political party in Althing, Iceland's parliament. She was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland on May 24 2007.
Ingibjörg Sólrún started her political career in the Women's Alliance ("Samtök um kvennalista"), a party she represented in Reykjavík's City Council from 1982 to 1988. She also represented the party in Parliament from 1991 to 1994.
She became Mayor of Reykjavík in 1994 when she led a coalition of four political parties called Reykjavíkurlistinn, winning the elections. She was the city's Mayor until 2003.
In 2005 Ingibjörg Sólrún became the leader of the Alliance after a sharply contested election between her and the previous party leader Össur Skarphéðinsson.
Supporters of Ingibjörg Sólrún compare her with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and say that she is the natural choice for Iceland's next Prime Minister.
External links
* [http://www.mfa.is/ Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland]
* [http://www.althingi.is/cv_en.php4?ksfaerslunr=85 Alþingi biography]
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