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Sigrún Magnúsdóttir

Sigrún Magnúsdóttir
Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources
In office
31 December 2014 – 11 January 2017
Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
Personal details
Born (1944-06-15) 15 June 1944 (age 72)
Political party Progressive Party

Sigrún Magnúsdóttir (born 15 June 1944) is an Icelandic politician. She represented the Reykjavík North Constituency in the Althingi from 2013 until 2016.

At the end of 2014 she was appointed Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources The post had previously been held by Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson (who combined it with Fisheries and Agriculture). It was reassigned in the third reshuffle of the Cabinet of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.

Following the Icelandic parliamentary election, 2016 (in which she did not stand) a new government was formed. In January 2017 she was succeeded as environment minister by Björt Ólafsdóttir in the Cabinet of Bjarni Benediktsson, Jr.



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