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Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir

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Prime Minister
  
Geir Haarde

Succeeded by
  
Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir

Preceded by
  
Jónína Bjartmarz

Children
  
One daughter (b. 1982)

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Born
  
22 November 1965 (age 51) Reykjavík, Iceland (
1965-11-22
)

Political party
  
Women's List Social Democratic Alliance

Alma mater
  
University of Iceland Johns Hopkins University

Education
  
University of Iceland, Johns Hopkins University

Political parties
  
Social Democratic Alliance, Women's List

Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir (born 22 November 1965) is an Icelandic politician. A graduate of the University of Iceland and the Bologna Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, she was Iceland's Minister for the Environment from 24 May 2007 to 2009. She was a been a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) from 1999 to 2011, first elected as a member of Women's List, then the Social Democratic Alliance.

References

Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir Wikipedia