Background
Gylfason, Thorvaldur was born on July 18, 1951 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Son of Gylfi Th. and Gudrun (Vilmundardottir) Gislason.
Gylfason, Thorvaldur was born on July 18, 1951 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Son of Gylfi Th. and Gudrun (Vilmundardottir) Gislason.
Bachelor in Economics with honours, Manchester (England) University, l973; Master of Arts in Economics, Princeton University, l975; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Princeton University, l976.
On 27 November 2010, he was elected to be a delegate at the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly in 2011. Thorvaldur Gylfason has been Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland since 1983. He was Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1986-1988.
Prior to this he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund (International Monetary Fund) in Washington from 1976 to 1981.
Thorvaldur has been active in international policy debate as a Research Fellow at CESifo (Center for Economic Studies) at the University of Munich, Research Associate at the Center for United States.-Japan Business and Economic Studies at New York University, and Fellow of the European Economic Association. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in 1978-1996, and Research Fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research (Centre for Economic Policy Research) in London in 1987-2009.
In recent years, he has been a frequent consultant to the International Monetary Fund and also the World Bank, the European Commission, and the European Free Trade Association (European Free Trade Association). He was chairman of the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing from 1986 to 1990.
Þorvaldur has written regular columns on a wide range of subjects in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið since the early 2000s.
He has been more prominent since the banking collapse of 2008.
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Board of directors Icelandic Opera Society, Reykjavik, 1987-1994. Member American Economics Association, European Economics Association (Executive Committee 1992-1996), Icelandic Economics Association, Swedish Economics Association.