Kjartan Jóhannsson
| Kjartan Jóhannsson | |
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| Minister of Commerce | |
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In office 15 October 1979 – 8 February 1980 |
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| Prime Minister | Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal |
| Preceded by | Svavar Gestsson |
| Succeeded by | Tómas Árnason |
| Minister of Fisheries | |
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In office 1 September 1978 – 8 February 1980 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ólafur Jóhannesson Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal |
| Preceded by | Matthías Bjarnason |
| Succeeded by | Steingrímur Hermannsson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 December 1939 Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Kjartan Jóhannsson (born 19 December 1939) an Icelandic diplomat, politician, former cabinet minister, and professor.
Kjartan was Ambassador of Iceland to, among others, the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, as well as the UN and other international organizations in Geneva. He was secretary general of EFTA, a member of the Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi), chairman and vice chairman of the Icelandic Social Democratic Party, Minister of Fisheries and Commerce, a consultant in management and management science, and an associate professor at the University of Iceland.
After graduating from Reykjavík Junior College, Kjartan went to Stockholm and studied civil engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), receiving an M.S. in 1963. He also attended courses in business and management economics at the in 1964. In the autumn of 1964, he went to Chicago to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology on a Fulbright Scholarship, receiving an M.S. in industrial engineering in 1965 before continuing on on a stipend from the Icelandic Scientific Fund and completing a Ph.D. in the field of operations research.
Kjartan taught at Reykjavík Junior College during 1963 as well as working part-time for an engineering consultancy and the Icelandic Road Administration from 1963 to 1965. From 1966 to 1978, he ran his own consulting firm in the fields of planning, management and operations research. He was a lecturer at the University of Iceland in the Department of Science and Engineering from 1966 to 1974, before being appointed an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Business Administration. This position he kept from 1974 to 1989, with a leave of absence from 1978 to 1980 while he was Minister of Fisheries and Commerce. Kjartan was among the pioneers of operations research in Iceland. In 1967, he along with two other academics, wrote the first ever computerized prediction program for Parliamentary elections in Iceland. Kjartan was appointed an honorary member of The Operations Research Society of Iceland in 2006.
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