Guðrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir

Gudrun Margret Gudmundsdottir is an Icelandic Anthropologist, born in 1969 and is currently working at the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASÍ) as an expert on discrimination in the labour market. She is both a board member of the Icelandic Development Cooperation committee and of GRÓ – International Centre for Capacity Development – Sustainable use of Natural Resources and Societal Change. Before that she was a Project Manager/Arabic interpreter in refugee reception programmes. She was also worked as a Gender Advisor for the Icelandic Crisis Respond Unit (ICRU) at the World Food Program HQ in Cairo. She lived in the Middle East for over ten years as a young woman, in a few Arabian Gulf States and Yemen. After returning home to Iceland she studied at the University of Iceland where she got her BA and MA degrees, majoring on sexual and gender based violence and the Middle East. As a student she became involved in the women´s rights movement and since then has sat on various boards including as Chair of the National Committee of UNIFEM (now UN Women), a vice chair of the Icelandic Women´s Rights Association.