Dr. Gunnar Pálsson, sendiherra Íslands á Indlandi

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Ambassador Dr. Gunnar Pálsson was born in Reykjavík in 1955. He completed his Bachelor Degree from the University College, Dublin, in Politics and Philosophy in 1977, before completing studies in Philosophy at Karl Eberhardt’s University, Tübingen, from 1977-1978. He did his Masters Degree in Philosophy from University College, Dublin, 1979 and then went ahead to do his Doctorate in Political Science from University at Buffalo, New York, 1984.

Ambassador Pálsson was a journalist at the daily Morgunblaðið, before joining as First Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Reykjavík in 1984. In 1986, he became the member of the International Staff of NATO, headquarters in Brussels, He returned to the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1988 as a Counsellor. In 1991, Ambassador Pálsson was posted to Vienna, where he served as Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), the negotiations on Confidence and Security-Building Measures (CSBM) and the negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE). In 1992, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Iceland. In 1994, he was appointed as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations in New York. From 1998 till 2002 he served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iceland to NATO and WEU, Brussels, and OPCW, The Hague.

In 2002, he was appointed as the Chairman, Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) of the Arctic Council and then, in 2004 returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iceland as Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs. In 2006, he has been appointed as the second Iceland’s Ambassador to India. Ambassador Pálsson is married to Mrs. Elín Snorradóttir and they have three children.