Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir

Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir
Personal details
Born (1990-11-30) 30 November 1990
Reykjavík, Iceland
Political party Independence Party
Parents Sigurbjörn Magnússon (born 1959)
Kristín Steinarsdóttir (1959-2012)
Alma mater University of Iceland
Profession Lawyer

Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir (born 30 November 1990) is an Icelandic politician who is a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Reykjavík North constituency since 2016 and deputy Chairman of the parliamentary group for the Independence Party. She has also served as the Secretary of the Independence Party since 2015.

Education and professional life

Áslaug was born in Reykjavík and has lived there all her life. She graduated from the University of Iceland in 2015 with a bachelor degree in law. She received her M.L. in law from the same university in 2017 for a thesis on referendums and their legal impact on democratic governance.[1]

Alongside her studies, Áslaug has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Morgunblaðið and it's website mbl.is, a police officer for the police department of the southern region of Iceland, an intern for the law firm Juris and a brief time as a fisherman.[2]

Political career

Áslaug served as chairman of the independence party youth movement in Reykjavík from 2011-2013. In October 2015, she ran for the position of secretary of the independence party against, then secretary of the independence party, Guðlaugur Þór, after she declared her interest in the position Guðlaugur Þór decided to step aside. She was elected the new secretary of the Independence Party and received 91.9[3] percent of the votes cast.

In the 2016 elections, she was elected to parliament for the Reykjavík North constituency and again in the 2017 elections. As of 2017, she is serving as the Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary group of the independence party. She has been the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee since 2017 and chairman of the Icelandic delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).[4]

Personal life

Her mother, Kristín Steinarsdóttir, was a teacher. She died of cancer in the year 2012 and her father, Sigurbjörn Magnússon, is a Supreme Court attorney. Áslaug has two siblings.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1990, Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir (2017-09-05). ""Gagnsamleg íhlutun almennings" Þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslur og réttaráhrif þeirra á lýðræðislega stjórnarhætti" (in Icelandic).
  2. ↑ "Áslaug Arna | Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir". www.aslaugarna.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  3. ↑ "Áslaug nýr ritari Sjálfstæðisflokksins með 92 prósent atkvæða - Vísir". visir.is. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir". Alþingi. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  5. ↑ "Who is Áslaug Arna? | Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir". www.aslaugarna.is. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson		 Secretary of the Independence Party
2015–present		 Incumbent
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