Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir

Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir (; born 12 May 1988) is an Icelandic politician and economist who has served as the prime minister of Iceland since 2024, and leader of the Social Democratic Alliance since 2022. First elected to the Althing in the 2021 parliamentary election, she became Iceland's youngest-ever prime minister at the age of 36. , she is the world's second-youngest serving head of government behind Balen Shah. attended a Danish language summer camp, and later studied Spanish while spending a summer in the Basque Country.

She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Iceland in 2011. Although she initially planned to pursue a PhD in economics in the United States, she instead chose to focus on public policy.

Career Kristrún began her career as an assistant at the Central Bank of Iceland, where she worked until 2010. She then joined the analysis department of Arion Bank, remaining there until 2012. Between 2012 and 2014, she worked as a journalist for the business newspaper Viðskiptablaðið from its New York City office.

From 2015 to 2017, she worked as an equity research associate at Morgan Stanley in both New York and later London. After returning to Iceland in 2017, she became chief economist at the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. She later served as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Iceland and subsequently as chief economist at Kvika Bank before entering politics in 2021.

Political career

Parliament Kristrún was elected as a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík South constituency at the 2021 parliamentary election. At the 2024 snap election, she was elected to represent the Reykjavík North constituency.

Prime Minister of Iceland (2024–present)

Kristrún led her party into the 2024 snap election, securing 20.8% of the vote and 15 seats in the Althing. She held coalition negotiations with the Viðreisn and People's Party which began on 4 December and concluded seventeen days later, when she was appointed prime minister along with her cabinet.

She called for a ceasefire in Gaza during a meeting with President Trump in June 2025. In 2026, she was prime minister during the Icelandic European Union membership negotiations referendum. After the result was announced Kristrún said that the referendum outcome will be respected.

Personal life Kristrún is married to Einar Bergur Ingvarsson, and they have two daughters, born in 2019 and 2023. Einar had previously earned an MBA from Yale University, a connection that influenced Kristrún's decision to pursue graduate studies at Yale.