Rún Ingvarsdóttir Hired as Assistant to Iceland’s Foreign Minister
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- Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir appointed Rún Ingvarsdóttir as her assistant.
- Ingvarsdóttir holds a master’s degree in international studies from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked in communications, media and business.
- She began work at the Foreign Ministry on September 1 alongside fellow ministerial assistant Ingileif Friðriksdóttir.
Iceland’s Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir has appointed Rún Ingvarsdóttir as a ministerial assistant.
Ingvarsdóttir holds a master’s degree in international studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has experience in communications, media and business.
For the past four years, she served as communications director at Veitur, a subsidiary of Reykjavík Energy. Before that, she worked for seven years as a communications specialist at Landsbankinn. From 2007 to 2015, she worked as a foreign-news reporter at Iceland’s RÚV broadcaster.
Ingvarsdóttir started at the Foreign Ministry on September 1. She will work alongside Ingileif Friðriksdóttir, who also serves as an assistant to the foreign minister.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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