Árni Páll Árnason
Árni Páll Árnason is a former Icelandic politician, who served in the government of Iceland as Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security from 10 May 2009 to 2 September 2010, and as Minister of Economic Affairs from 2 September 2010 to 31 December 2011. He served as a Member of Parliament for the Social Democratic Party from 2007 - 2016. He was elected party leader in February 2013 in a ballot of all party members with 62,2% of the votes cast, and served as leader until June 2016.
He was commissioned in June 2017 by the Nordic Council of Ministers to undertake a strategic review of the Nordic Welfare Model. He delivered a final report to the Swedish Social Minister, Annika Strandhäll, on 16 October 2018, named .
Árni Páll Árnason is currently Deputy Director of the Financial Mechanism Office for the EEA and Norway Grants in Brussels.
Born in Reykjavik, he received a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1991 and did postgraduate studies in European law at the College of Europe, from 1991 to 1992. He became an attorney at law in 1997.
