Professional Experience
• Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary to Germany August 2016
• Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Geneva 2012-2016
• Ambassador to the Holy See, since December 2013
• Ambassador to Liechtenstein, since December 2012
• Director General MFA – External Trade and Economic affairs, 2007-2012
• Director MFA – European affairs, 2007
• Deputy Director MFA, Department of External Trade, 2007
• Head of Overseas Business Services MFA, 2003-2004
• Head of Unit MFA – International Trade Agreements, 2002-2003
• Embassy of Iceland in Brussels – First Secretary 1998-2002
• Legal expert EU and EEA law – MFA 1996-1998

Other Activities
• LDC Facilitator WTO Ministerial Meeting, Nairobi 2015
• Chairman of the WTO Council for Trade in Services, 2015-2016
• Chairman of the WTO Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions, 2014-2015
• Member of Chief Negotiation Committee on Iceland's Membership to EU, 2009-2012
• IMF Programme of Iceland - Negotiations, 2008
• Icesave Negotiation Committee, 2008-2009
• Negotiations with various countries on Foreign Currency Reserves, 2009
• Negotiations on various Air Services Agreements from 2002-2011
• EEA Enlargment negotiations, 2007
• EEA Enlargment negotiations, 2004
• Legal pleadings before the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the EFTA Court on behalf of the Government of Iceland
• Various articles on EU law in Iceland and International Academic Journals and lectured in Universities in Iceland on EU law

Education
• Cand. Juris. University of Iceland, Faculty of Law, Reykjavík, Iceland
• Languages: Icelandic, English, German, French and Danish

Personal Information
• Born 18 May 1971 in the Westman Islands, Iceland
• Married to Eva Thengilsdóttir (cand.oecon, MPA). Three children; Thengill (1991), Sylvía (1999) and Tinna (2001)
• Played football in the Icelandic Premier League for 5 years with IBV