Halla Tómasdóttir

About

Halla Tómasdóttir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhatla ˈtʰouːmasˌtouhtɪr̥] ; born 11 October 1968) is an Icelandic businesswoman and politician who has served as president of Iceland since 2024. She is Iceland’s second female president, after Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. Before becoming president, Halla was a public speaker and the chief executive of The B Team, a global nonprofit group.

== Early life and education ==
Halla graduated from Verzlunarskóli Íslands in 1986, and afterwards moved to the United States as an international student, where she attended Evansville Central High School and graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a focus on management and human resources, in 1993. She received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University in 1995.

== Early career ==
Halla is a former member of the founding team of Reykjavík University in 1998. She also co-founded Auður Capital, an investment firm. She served as the chief executive of The B Team, a global nonprofit group of business and civil society leaders working to promote business practices focused…