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Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir
Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir (born 21 February 1971) is an Icelandic politician and the Mayor of Reykjavík since 21 February 2025. Heiða served as the vice chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance from February 2017 until October 2022. She is the former chair of the party's women's movement and she is a city councillor in Reykjavík. Political career Heiða was the chair of the Women's Movement in the Social Democratic Alliance from 2013 to 2015. She took a seat on Reykjavík City Council in 2015, where she has been on the executive board of the city. Heiða has been the chair of the Reykjavík Violence Prevention Committee since its establishment, which was approved at a women's celebration meeting of the city council on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage on 31 March 2015. Heiða was second on Samfylkingin's list in the 2018 city council elections, and was elected chair of the Reykjavík Welfare Council at a meeting of the city council on 19 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Reykjavík
The post of Mayor of Reykjavík () was created in 1907 and advertised in 1908. Páll Einarsson and Knud Zimsen applied for the job and Páll got the position for a period of six years, at the end of which he did not wish to renew his tenure. Rather than a direct election, Reykjavík City Council members elect the mayor from within their ranks. Between 1932 and 1994 the centre-right Independence Party dominated Reykjavík municipal politics, but since then other parties have been more competitive. During the 2006-2010 term four people held the mayor position, due to an unprecedented amount of instability in Reykjavík's municipal coalition government caused in part by the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis. The incumbent mayor is Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir, who took office in 2025. Heiða's Social Democratic Alliance currently governs the city as the senior coalition partner with the People's Party, Pirate Party, Left-Green Movement and Socialist Party Socialist Party is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavík University
Reykjavík University (RU; , , ) is the largest private university in Iceland with approximately 3,300 students. It is Charter school, chartered by the Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Icelandic Industries, and the Confederation of Icelandic Employers. The university consists of seven academic departments in two schools. Within the School of Social Sciences are: the Department of Law, Department of Business Administration, Department of Sport Science, and Department of Psychology. Within the School of Technology are the Department of Computer Science, Department of Engineering, and Department of Applied Engineering. The university is bilingual (English and Icelandic). History Reykjavík University has its roots in the Commercial College of Iceland, School of Computer Science (TVÍ), which was founded in January 1988 and operated within the Commercial College of Iceland (VÍ) facilities for ten years. Reykjavík University started its first semester on 1 September 1998, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
