Английская Википедия:Guðrún Agnarsdóttir

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Icelandic name 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 served as CEO of Iceland's cancer society from 1992 to 2009, when she retired to spend time with her family and to continue farming forests.

Early life and education

Guðrún Agnarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík to Agnar Guðmundsson and Birna Petersen on 2 June 1941.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1961 and 1968, she earned degrees from the University of Iceland.Шаблон:Sfn In university, only five percent of the students were women.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn She received her Icelandic medical license in 1978, and her British medical license in 1981.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

She served in the Alþingi from 1983 to 1990; for the first four years, she was elected at the national level, and for the last three, she represented Reykjavík.Шаблон:Sfn She was a member of the Women's List.Шаблон:Sfn She worked on issues relating to rape, AIDS, and the medical sciences.Шаблон:Sfnm

In the 1996 Icelandic presidential election, Guðrún was a candidate as a member of the Women's List.Шаблон:Sfnm She said she ran to make Iceland "a model society ... where all individuals matter".Шаблон:Sfn She was the only woman to run, and lost to Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson with around 25 percent of the vote.Шаблон:Sfn She sent Ólafur congratulations, and he sent her thanks for her work during the campaign.Шаблон:Sfn The Women's List doubled in representation in the Alþingi, from three to six members.Шаблон:Sfn

Guðrún is a physician.Шаблон:Sfn She met her husband, Helgi Þröstur Valdimarsson, in her early career as a doctor.Шаблон:Sfn From 1988 to 1992, she was a member of the executive board of the cancer society of Iceland, and from 1992 to 2009, was its CEO;Шаблон:Sfn she retired to spend time with her grandchildren and continue forest farming.Шаблон:Sfn

Later life

In 2018, her husband died.Шаблон:Sfn In 2021, Guðrún said that she no longer regretted losing the presidential election.Шаблон:Sfn

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