Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Iceland)


The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is an Icelandic cabinet-level ministry founded 18 November 1941. The ministry is responsible for foreign policy, diplomatic missions, trade, foreign aid, and interactions with international organizations among other tasks.
The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also responsible for national security and defense policy for Iceland.
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List of Ministers

The following lists the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, their party, date of assuming and leaving office, their tenure in years and days, and the cabinet they served in.
PortraitNamePartyTook officeLeft officeTenureCabinetRef
Stefán Jóhann StefánssonSDP18 11 194117 01 1942Hermann Jónasson IV
Ólafur ThorsIP16 05 194216 12 1942Ólafur Thors I
Independent16 12 194221 10 1944Björn Þórðarson
Ólafur ThorsIP21 10 194404 02 1947Ólafur Thors II
Bjarni BenediktssonIP04 02 194711 09 1953Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson
Ólafur Thors III
Steingrímur Steinþórsson
Kristinn GuðmundssonPP11 09 195324 07 1956Ólafur Thors IV
Guðmundur Í. GuðmundssonSDP24 07 195603 08 1956Hermann Jónasson V
Emil JónssonSDP03 08 195617 10 1956Hermann Jónasson V
Guðmundur Í. GuðmundssonSDP17 10 195631 08 1965Hermann Jónasson V
Emil Jónsson
Ólafur Thors V
Bjarni Benediktsson (1908)
Emil JónssonSDP31 08 196514 07 1971Bjarni Benediktsson (1908)
Jóhann Hafstein
Einar ÁgústssonPP14 07 197101 09 1978Ólafur Jóhannesson I
Geir Hallgrímsson
Benedikt GröndalSDP01 09 197808 02 1980Ólafur Jóhannesson II
Benedikt Gröndal
Ólafur JóhannessonPP08 02 198026 05 1983Gunnar Thoroddsen
Geir HallgrímssonIP26 05 198324 01 1986Steingrímur Hermannsson I
Matthías Á. MathiesenIP24 01 198608 07 1987Steingrímur Hermannsson I
Steingrímur HermannssonPP08 07 198728 09 1988Þorsteinn Pálsson
Jón Baldvin HannibalssonSDPSteingrímur Hermannsson
Halldór ÁsgrímssonPPDavíð Oddsson
Davíð OddssonIP |Halldór Ásgrímsson