Ásmundur Einar Daðason (born 29 October 1982) is an Icelandic

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

. He served as a member of the

Althing The (; ), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme Parliament, national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ('Thing (assembly), thing ...

for the

Northwest Constituency Northwest () is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Iceland when the Northwestern constit ...

from 2009 to 2016, initially representing the

Left-Green Movement The Left-Green Movement (, ), also known by its short-form name Vinstri græn (VG), is an eco-socialist political party in Iceland. Since the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election, the party has had no members in the Althing. The party chairper ...

(VG) and later the centrist Progressive Party. After a hiatus, he returned to the

in 2017. Additionally, he has held leadership positions within the organization Heimssyn, which advocates against Iceland's membership in the EU. On 30 November 2017 he assumed the role of Minister of Social Affairs and Equality. On 28 November 2021 he was appointed Minister of Education and Children.

Career

Minister of Social Affairs and Children

Ásmundur Einar was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Children in the Jakobsdottir cabinet after government negotiations following the 2017 election. Following the 2021 election, he was appointed Minister of Education and Children. After taking office as a minister in 2017, Ásmundur Einar declared that his main emphasis as a minister would be services provided for children. He stated that he wished to make large-scale changes in the systems that provide services to children in Iceland. On 31 December 2018 he changed the ministerial title to reflect his focus on children's rights and became Minister of Social Affairs and Children, the first minister for children in Iceland. In 2020, i
a personal interview with Morgunblaðið
Ásmundur Einar described his youth and upbringing and the effects that experience had had on his adult life. Based on that experience, Ásmundur Einar emphasised his first hand knowledge of how it feels to be a child in an environment where not everything is up to par and assistance is needed. In 2020, Ásmundur Einar presented

to the Icelandic Parliament on the Integration of Services in the Interest of Children's Prosperity. The bill was accompanied by two other bills, one o

and the other o

The two are new institutions, founded on the basis of two currently operating institutions, and their role would be to oversee the implementation and activities based on the new law on the Integration of Services in the Interest of Children's Prosperity. The bill was passed int

in the spring of 2021 and took effect on 1 January 2022. On 13 January 2021, Ásmundur Einar announced that he would run for Parliament in Reykjavík North Constituency, after serving four terms for

. In September 2021, he was elected into Parliament for that constituency and appointed minister in November of the same year.

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Non auto-biography of Ásmundur Einar Daðason on the parliament
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