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Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson

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Political party
  
Children
  
three children

Education
  
Spouse(s)
  
Sigrún J. Þórisdóttir

Alma mater
  
University of Essex

Party
  
Independence Party

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Preceded by
  
Árni Mathiesen (as Minister of Fisheries)Guðni Ágústsson (as Minister of Agriculture)

Born
  
2 December 1955 (age 61)Bolungarvík, Iceland (
1955-12-02
)

Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson (born 2 December 1955) is an Icelandic politician. He is speaker of the Althing, in office 2013 until 2016. He was Iceland's Minister of Fisheries from September 2005, and became Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture when the two ministries merged on 1 January 2008 until 1 February 2009.

Note on pronunciation

ð is the letter edh, which in Icelandic represents a voiced dental fricative, as in th in the English word "them."

References

Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson Wikipedia


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