Þorvaldur Gylfason
Thorvaldur Gylfason (Icelandic orthography Þorvaldur Gylfason; born 18 July 1951) is an Icelandic economist who has been active in Icelandic public life. On 27 November 2010, he was elected to be a delegate at the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly in 2011. He was also chairman of the Iceland Democratic Party. Education In 1973 he received the B.A. degree in economics at the University of Manchester. He received the PhD degree in economics at Princeton University in 1976. Career Thorvaldur Gylfason has been professor of economics at the University of Iceland since 1983. He was visiting professor of public and unternational affairs at Princeton in 1986–1988. Prior to this he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington from 1976 to 1981. Thorvaldur has been active in international policy debate as a research fellow at Center for Economic Studies, CESifo (Center for Economic Studies) at the University of Munich, research associate at the Center for U ...
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