Guðrún Agnarsdóttir
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Guðrún Agnarsdóttir (born 1941) is an Icelandic politician and physician. She served in the Alþingi from 1983 to 1990 as a member of the Women's List, and ran for the presidency of Iceland in 1996. She was CEO of Iceland's cancer society from 1992 to 2009, when she retired to spend time with her family and to continue farming forests.
Guðrún Agnarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík to Agnar Guðmundsson and Birna Petersen on 2 June 1941.[1]
In 1961 and 1968, she earned degrees from the University of Iceland.[1] In university, only five percent of the students were women.[2] For the next two years, she worked in hospitals, before receiving further education at Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School over the next eleven.[1] She received her Icelandic medical license in 1978, and her British medical license in 1981.[1]
