Education
Katrín graduated from the University of Iceland in 1999 with a bachelor degree with a major in Icelandic and minor in French.
politician Member of the Althing
Katrín graduated from the University of Iceland in 1999 with a bachelor degree with a major in Icelandic and minor in French.
She became deputy chairman of the Left-Green Movement in 2003 and has been their chairman since 2013. Katrín was Iceland"s Minister of Education, Science and Culture. from 2 February 2009 to 23 May 2013, and Minister of Nordic Company-operation 2009-2013. She received her Master of Arts in Icelandic Literature from the same university in 2004 for a dissertation on the work of popular Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason.
She worked part-time as a language adviser at the news agency at public broadcaster RÚV 1999-2003.
She then freelanced for broadcast media and wrote for a variety of print media from 2004 to 2006, as well as being an instructor in lifelong learning and leisure at the Mímir School 2004-2007. Editorial work for the publishing company Edda and magazine JPV 2005-2006.
Lecturer at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík University and Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík 2006-2007. She hails from a family, which has produced many prominent people in Icelandic politics, academia and literature.
She is the younger sister of twin brothers Ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson, who are both professors in the humanities at the University of Iceland.
Katrín is the great-granddaughter of the politician and judge Skúli Thoroddsen and the poet Theódóra Thoroddsen, and granddaughter of the engineer and Member of Parliament Sigurður South. Thoroddsen.