Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Valgerður.

Valgerður Sverrisdóttir
Sverrisdóttir in 2004

Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 15 June 2006 – 24 May 2007
Prime Minister	Geir Haarde
Preceded by	Geir Haarde
Succeeded by	Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Minister of Industry and Commerce
In office 1999–2006
Prime Minister	Davíð Oddsson; Halldór Ásgrímsson; Geir Haarde
Preceded by	Finnur Ingólfsson
Succeeded by	Jón Sigurðsson
Personal details
Born	(1950-03-23) 23 March 1950 Lómatjörn, Grýtubakkahreppur, Iceland
Political party	Progressive Party
Spouse(s)	Arvid Kro
Children	Three daughters (born 1978, 1982, 1989)

Valgerður Sverrisdóttir (born 23 March 1950) is an Icelandic politician. She was a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Progressive Party for the Northeast constituency starting in 1987 and was Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1999, Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1999 to 2006, and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2004 to 2005.^[1] She was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 15 June 2006 to 24 May 2007.^[2] She has been a member of the Progressive Party's central committee since 1983.

Controversy

In 2006, Árni Finnsson, chairman of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association, accused Valgerdur Sverrisdóttir of corruption for failing to reveal details of a report showing that the area on which the Kárahnjúkavirkjun dam was being built had active faults in the earth, While she was Minister of Industry and Commerce.

Geophysicist Grímur Björnsson revealed on the television news programme Kastljós that a report he had prepared, criticizing the placement of the Kárahnjúkar dam, had been stamped as confidential by his superior at the time. Minister of Industry Sverrisdóttir had subsequently failed to reveal the details of the report to parliament, as she was obliged to do.

Valgerður rejected all accusations, claiming the controversy was a last-ditch effort on behalf of the opposition to delay the flooding of the Hálslón Reservoir. The flooding of the reservoir, which was set to take place at the end of September of the same year, subsequently submerged a large section of the Icelandic highlands.^[3]

References

↑ CV at Althing website.
↑ List of former foreign ministers of Iceland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
↑ http://savingiceland.puscii.nl/?p=556&language=en at Saving Island

External links

Media related to Valgerður Sverrisdóttir at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by Finnur Ingólfsson	Minister of Industry and Commerce 1999–2006	Succeeded by Jón Sigurðsson
Preceded by Siv Friðleifsdóttir	Minister for Nordic Cooperation 2004–2005	Succeeded by
Preceded by Geir H. Haarde	Minister for Foreign Affairs 2006–2007	Succeeded by Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Party political offices
Preceded by Guðni Ágústsson	Chairman of the Progressive Party 2008–2009	Succeeded by Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson

Third cabinet of Davíð Oddsson

Ministers	Árni Mathiesen Björn Bjarnason Davíð Oddsson Finnur Ingólfsson Geir Haarde Guðni Ágústsson Halldór Ásgrímsson Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir Jón Halldór Kristjánsson Páll Bragi Pétursson Siv Friðleifsdóttir Sólveig Guðrún Pétursdóttir Sturla Böðvarsson Tómas Ingi Olrich Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

Fourth cabinet of Davíð Oddsson

Ministers	Árni Magnússon Árni Mathiesen Björn Bjarnason Davíð Oddsson Geir Haarde Guðni Ágústsson Halldór Ásgrímsson Jón Halldór Kristjánsson Siv Friðleifsdóttir Sturla Böðvarsson Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir Tómas Ingi Olrich Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

Cabinet of Halldór Ásgrímsson

Ministers	Árni Magnússon Árni Mathiesen Björn Bjarnason Davíð Oddsson Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson Geir Haarde Guðni Ágústsson Halldór Ásgrímsson Jón Halldór Kristjánsson Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir Siv Friðleifsdóttir Sturla Böðvarsson Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

First cabinet of Geir Haarde

Ministers	Árni Mathiesen Björn Bjarnason Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson Geir Haarde Guðni Ágústsson Jón Sigurðsson Jónína Bjartmarz Magnús Stefánsson Siv Friðleifsdóttir Sturla Böðvarsson Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir Valgerður Sverrisdóttir

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