Albertína Friðbjörg Elíasdóttir (born 17 February 1980 in

Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...

) is an Icelandic politician from the

Social Democratic Alliance The Social Democratic Alliance ( is, Samfylkingin - jafnaðarflokkur Íslands), officially The Alliance – Iceland's Social Democratic Party, is a social democratic, and pro-European political party in Iceland. The Social Democratic Alliance wa ...

. She was a member of the Icelandic Parliament (

Althing The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembly ...

) from 2017 to 2021.

Life

Albertína Friðbjörg Elíasdóttir has degrees in

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

(B.Sc. 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 ...

2005) and Geography (M.Sc. from the University of Iceland 2012) as well as a piano diploma from the Ísafjörður Music School. Among other things, she was a project manager at the

Westfjords The Westfjords or West Fjords ( is, Vestfirðir , ISO 3166-2:IS: IS-4) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative district, the least populous administrative district. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast ...

Economic Development Organization, ''Atvinnuþróunarfélag Vestfjarða'', as well as a project manager and teacher at the University Center of the Westfjords. From 2016 to 2017 she was the managing director of the ''EIMUR'' PPP project to promote the use of

geothermal energy Geothermal energy is the thermal energy in the Earth's crust which originates from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of materials in currently uncertain but possibly roughly equal proportions. The high temperature and pres ...

in Northeast Iceland. She also served as

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

for several churches in the Westfjords. From 2010 to 2014, Albertína Friðbjörg was a member of the

Ísafjarðarbær Ísafjarðarbær () is a municipality of Iceland in the Westfjords region, created in 1996 from Flateyrarhreppur, Ísafjarðarkaupstaður, Mosvallahreppur, Mýrahreppur, Suðureyrarhreppur and Þingeyrarhreppur. Geography The principal settl ...

city council, and as its chairwoman in 2011 and 2013. In the parliamentary election on October 28, 2017, she was elected to the

as the

's candidate for the

Northeast constituency Northeast ( is, Norðaustur) is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established as Northeastern ( is, Norðurland eystra) in 1959 following the nationwide extension ...

. As of the beginning of 2018, she was a member of the parliamentary committee for commercial affairs. In January 2021, Albertína Friðbjörg announced that she was pregnant with her first child and would no longer run in the

2021 Icelandic parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 September 2021 to elect the members of the Althing. Following the elections, the three parties in the ruling coalition government – the Independence Party, Progressive Party and Left-Green Mov ...

. She said working in parliament was “perhaps not very family-friendly”, especially since she lives in

Akureyri Akureyri (, locally ) is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's fifth-largest municipality, after Reykjavík, Hafnarfjörður, Reykjanesbær and Kópavogur, and the largest town outside Iceland's more populated southwest corner. Nicknamed ...

and therefore has to travel a long way.

References

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(engl.) {{Authority control Living people 1980 births People from Ísafjörður Social Democratic Alliance politicians Members of the Althing 21st-century Icelandic politicians 21st-century Icelandic women politicians University of Iceland alumni Icelandic sociologists Icelandic pianists Icelandic women sociologists Icelandic women pianists