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).

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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 in England at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs, 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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Steinunn is currently on temporary leave from work.
 

Jóna Aðalheiður Pálmadóttir

graduated with a Masters degree in law from the University of Iceland in 2009. Her masters thesis was titled " Child Trafficking and Iceland's International Obligations there for".

Jóna worked while studying at the Directorate of Customs and was an assistant teacher in Family and inheritance law at the University for one semister. Jóna also volunteers at the women's counselling which is a free legal counselling for women.  l

Valgerður Björk Pálsdóttir

graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Iceland in October 2011. She studied as well at the University of Vienna as an Erasmus exchange student in 2010-2011. Her Bachelor's thesis is called "Democratic Transition in Post-Soviet Europe: The Incomplete Process of Democratization in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova." Valgerður has worked with immigrants, she was a volunteer for a NGO in Vienna where the main aim is to support and aid young asylum seekers, she takes part in the Mentor Program for the Icelandic Red Cross where she aides an immigrant woman in her adjustment to Icelandic society and also works part time as a journalist for a local newspaper where she occasionally interviews immigrants on their experience in Iceland.

valgerdur@humanrights.is

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