Halldór ÃsgrÃmsson
Halldór Ásgrímsson is the Former Prime Minister of Iceland as well as the Former Secretary General for the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Biography
Ásgrímsson was the Minister of Fisheries from 1983 to 1991; Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1988 to 1989; Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 1985 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1999; and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2004. Starting in 1997, he became a member of the World Bank’s Finance Committee. Following in 1998, Ásgrímsson chaired the European Council’s Ministerial Commission. He was the chairman of the Arctic council from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he came Iceland’s Prime Minister, succeeding Davio Oddsson. He resigned as Prime Minister in 2006. In the same year, he was chosen as the Secretary-General of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Education
Ásgrímsson studied at the Co-Operative College in Bifrost and then became a Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) in 1970. He then went on to receive his graduate degrees from the Bergen and Copenhagen Universities of Commerce. After, he became a lecturer at the University of Iceland in the Economics and Business Administration from 1973 to 1975.
