2008

Ambassador of Iceland to Japan from August 2008

2006-2008

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iceland to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from September. Ambassador to the Holy See resident in Strasbourg from June 2007

2006

Chief of Protocol at the MFA from January

2000

Secretary General of the Office of the President of Iceland

1997

Deputy Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations and serving concurrently as Consul General of Iceland in New York

1996

Minister-Councellor

1994

Councellor Deputy Head of Department of Trade at the MFA

1991

First Secretary Embassy of Iceland to the Russian Federation

1990

First Secretary Embassy of Iceland to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1987

First Secretary Embassy of Iceland, Washington D.C.

1987

First Secretary Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

1986

Newsman, Foreign News Department, Icelandic State Television

1985

Cand. Juris from the University of Iceland

1982 – 83

Journalist at the DV Daily Newspaper in Reykjavík