Ögmundur Jónasson

Ögmundur Jónasson ( born July 17, 1948 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic politician ( Left-Green Movement) and was from 2011 to 2013 Minister of Interior Islands.

Life

Ögmundur earned his university entrance qualification ( Stúdentspróf ) 1969 on Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík. Between 1971 and 1972 he worked as a teacher in a primary school in Reykjavík. He studied history and politics at Edinburgh; In 1974 he received his master; he remained until 1978 at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequently he worked until 1988 as a reporter on television and radio in Ríkisútvarpið, the public service broadcaster of Iceland, between 1986 and 1988 in Copenhagen. In addition, he has since 1979 lecturer at the University of Iceland and since 1988 has been president of the union Bandalag starfsmanna Rikis above bæja ( BSRB; engl Confederation of State and Municipal Employees of Iceland. ).

Ögmundur was first elected in 1995 to the Althing. He was leader of the Left-Green Movement in the Althing in 1999. On February 1, 2009 Ögmundur Icelandic Minister of Health was I. Government Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir He solved Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson of the Independence Party from. After the Icelandic parliamentary election in April 2009 Ögmundur was on May 10, 2009 Health Minister in the government Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir II 2010 he was Justice and Transport Minister and since 2011 he held the office of the Icelandic interior minister. In this office he was on May 23, 2013 replaced after the parliamentary elections in Iceland in 2013 by Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir who is Minister of the Interior in the cabinet Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.