Positions

Education

Visiting Professor. Master Programme in Political Science – Political Theory. University of Ljubljana. Slovenia. Since 2015
Associate Professor. School of Social Science. Bifröst University. 2005 – 2012
Visiting Research Fellow. Queen Mary, University of London. School of Politics and International Relations. January 2011 – January 2012
Visiting lecturer. Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. Trondheim, Norway. October 2009, September 2011.
Visiting lecturer. University of Ljubljana. Slovenia. Autumn 2008 and 2009
Visiting Research Fellow. Copenhagen University. Denmark. Autumn 2007
Adjunct professor. Political science department. University of Iceland. 2005 – 2006
External lecturer. Political science department. University of Iceland. From 2004 – 2005
Visiting lecturer. Lund University, Sweden. July 2006
Visiting lecturer. College of Rietavas, Lithuania. May 2006
Visiting Research Fellow. Centre for European Policy Studies. Brussels. May – June 2005
External lecturer. University of Iceland. Economics and Business department. 2003 – 2004

Member of Iceland’s Constitutional Council
Appointed by the Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi) in March 2011 – on the basis of a national election held in November 2010. The Council delivered to Parliament a formal bill for a new constitution for Iceland
Project officer – European affairs. University of Iceland. Research Liaison Office. 1999 – 2005. (On leave 2001-2002)
Head of Icelandic relations. Delegation of the European Commission to Iceland and Norway. Oslo. 2001 – 2002
Managing director. The Icelandic Theatre Company. Reykjavik. 1998 – 1999
Journalist. The Weekend post. Reykjavik. 1995 – 1996

Political Economy Consultant / Council Member at GLG Research in New York. Since 2012
Grant from the Association of Icelandic Non-fiction Writers (Hagþenkir) for the book project, Iceland and the International Financial Crisis. 2013
OSCE election observer in Russia’s Presidential election – held on March 4^th 2012. Based in Kazan in Tatarstan
Grant from the Association of Icelandic Non-fiction Writers (Hagþenkir) for the book project, Independent nation. 2009
Grant form the University of Iceland Science Fund (Rannsóknasjóður HÍ) for the project Sense of Sovereignty. 2007-2009
Grant from the Icelandic literature fund (Menningarsjóður) for the book project Open land. 2007
Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Since 2009
Have reviewed papers for many per-review journals, such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Capital and Class and numerous Icelandic journals