Mar Guðmundsson

Már Guðmundsson ( born June 21, 1954) is an Icelandic economist and current President of the Central Bank of Iceland ( Seðlabanka Íslands ).

Life

Guðmundsson has studied in England and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Essex. Furthermore, he studied economics and mathematics in Gothenburg. The master's degree in economics, he received from the University of Cambridge. ( M.Phil. )

Már Guðmundsson was twenty years working for the Central Bank of Iceland, including ten years from 1994 to 2004, when the Chief Economist ( aðalhagfræðingur ).

From 2004 to 2009 he worked at the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS) (English Bank for International Settlements ) in Basel. There he was deputy head of the Monetary and Economic Department.

On 29 June 2009 Guðmundsson as the successor of the Norwegian Svein Harald Øygard in the Office of the President ( seðlabankastjóri ) was announced by the Central Bank of Iceland. His deputy ( aðstoðarseðlabankastjóri ) and Chief Economist of the Icelandic economist Arnór Sighvatsson (born 1956) was appointed. On 20 August 2009 Guðmundsson took up his new post.