Drífa Snædal(born 5 June 1973) is an Icelandic trade union leader and politician. She was the president of the
Icelandic Confederation of Labour
The Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ) (Icelandic: Alþýðusamband Íslands) is a trade union centre in Iceland. It was formed in 1916 and has a membership of 104,500, approximately half of the Icelandic workforce.
The ASÍ is affiliated ...
(ASÍ) (Icelandic: Alþýðusamband Íslands) 2018-2022. She resigned August 10, 2022.
Drífa was born in
Reykjavík
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but grew up in
Hella
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from the age of four and in Lund in Sweden from the age of six to eleven. In 1993, she graduated from Fjölbrautaskólinn in Breiðholt with a degree in sociology. She graduated as a technical draftsman from the Reykjavík Vocational School in 1998, from the
University of Iceland
The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' s ...
with a business degree in 2003 and with a master's degree in labor market studies with an emphasis on labor law from
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
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, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Left Movement - Green Party from 2006 to 2010. In 2012 she became the executive director of the Icelandic Trade Union Confederation.