Ragna Sigurðardóttir (politician)
Icelandic politician (born 1992)
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Ragna Sigurðardóttir (born 31 August 1992) is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing.[1] A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she has represented the Reykjavík South constituency since November 2024.[2]
Ragna Sigurðardóttir (RagnaS) | |
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| Member of the Althing | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2024 | |
| Constituency | Reykjavík South |
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| Born | 31 August 1992 Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Citizenship | Icelandic American |
| Party | Social Democratic Alliance |
| Alma mater | University of Iceland |
| Profession | Physician |
Ragna was born on 31 August 1992 in Reykjavík.[3][4] She is the daughter of physician Sigurður Einarsson.[5] At the age of six she and her family migrated to Madison, Wisconsin, where her father was a resident gastroenterologist.[6][5] The family regularly returned to Iceland for vacations.[6] She studied at Madison West High School from 2006 to 2007 and obtained American citizenship.[4] The family moved back to Iceland in 2008, a move that Ragna was not happy with.[6] She studied at Kársnesskóli in Kópavogur and Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð from where she matriculated cum laude (2012).[4]
Ragna has Bachelor of Science (2017) and Doctor of Medicine (2022) degrees in medicine from the University of Iceland (HÍ).[4] She was chair of Röskva from 2014 to 2015 and one of the founders of Hugrún, a mental health education society.[4][7] She was a student representative on the university council at HÍ from 2016 to 2018 and chair of the student council at HÍ from 2017 to 2018.[4][8] She was a doctor at the health centre in Garðabær and a resident in surgery at Landspítali.[6][9]
Ragna led the Social Democratic Alliance's (Samfylkingin) campaign in Reykjavík during the 2018 municipal elections.[7] She was a board member of Samfylkingin's Reykjavík branch from 2020 to 2021.[4][10] She was president of the Young Social Democrats from 2020 to 2022.[4][11] She was a member of Reykjavík City Council from 2020 to 2022.[4][12] She was a substitute member of the Althing for Dagbjört Hákonardóttir in November 2023.[2] She was elected to the Althing at the 2024 parliamentary election.[13][14]