 : IPE Iceland 2023

Már Guðmundsson was the Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 to 2019. He was previously the Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements (2004-2019) and the Chief Economist and Director of the Economics Department at the Central Bank of Iceland (1994-2004). Guðmundsson served on the Council of Management of SUERF, the European Money and Finance Forum, was a member of several government appointed committees in Iceland and from 1998-1999 an IMF appointed adviser to the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. He has published several articles in books and economic journals on macroeconomics, monetary policy, exchange rate regimes, financial stability, capital flows and pensions. He served on the editorial boards of economic journals in Iceland, at the BIS, and in the UK. After retiring as governor, Guðmundsson has been Visiting Scholar at the SEACEN Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has produced reports for the Icelandic government on economic aspects of COVID19, and on pension issues. He has a M Phil degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

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