Permanent representative

Martin Eyjólfsson

Ambassador of Iceland

• Director General MFA – External Trade and Economic affairs.
• 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.
• Legal expert EU and EEA law – MFA 1996-1998.

• 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.
• 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.
• Representative for Iceland in EEA Subcommittee V on legal and institutional matters.
• Gives lectures in EU law at the Reykjavík University.
• Has published articles on EU law in domestic and international journals.

• Cand. Juris. University of Iceland, Faculty of Law, Reykjavík, Iceland.

• 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.