The People
Director
Margrét Steinarsdóttir started as the Icelandic human Rights Centre's director in March 2010.
Margrét graduated with a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1993.
Prior to joining the IHRC she was employed as the Intercultural Centre‘s lawyer from 2004, and took over as the Centre‘s director in January 2009 until November that same year. Margrét has also worked for the Government Gazette (Lögbirtingarlaðið) as well as with the Law and Ministerial Gazette (Stjórnartíðindi), Director of Internal Revenue (Ríkisskattstjóri) and Data Protection Authority (Persónuvernd).
Kolbrún Birna Árdal joined the Icelandic Human Rights Centre's staff in March 2008. Kolbrún has a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Acadia University in Canada. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Reykjavik in January 2010.
Neil Kelleher studied English and History in University College Cork, completing a dissertation entitled Collective Memory and the Nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Later studied law in the Dublin Institute of Technology, subsequently passing the admission examinations of the Law Society of Ireland. He joined the Centre in 2008.
Steinunn Björk Bjarkardóttir Pieper concentrated on humanities and Scandinavian studies at Brigham Young University in the state of Utah, USA, from where she graduated in August of 2000. In 2004 she started her masters degree at Durham University in England, and graduated in January of 2007. Her research is called An evaluation of immigration and integration policies with respect to the muslim community in Iceland. Steinunn has worked at the Centre since November 2009.
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