Sigríður Ásdís Snævarr

Sigríður Ásdís Snævarr (born 23 June 1952) is an Icelandic diplomat and was the first woman to be appointed as an ambassador by Iceland, serving as ambassador to Sweden from 1991 to 1996.

Education Sigríður was a fellow at Harvard Russian Research Center and holds a teaching diploma in Italian from Perugia University, a B.Sc.Econ in Economic International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. She is in the steering group guiding the future work of Icelandic diplomacy and leads a unit of home-based ambassadors in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Sigríður is a public speaker on topics such as gender equality. She is also on the board of the Icelandic medical imaging company Oxymap. They have one son born in 2007. At 55 years old, Sigríður was the oldest known Icelandic woman to give birth. Sigríður's parents were Valborg Sigurðardóttir and Ármann Snævarr. She has 4 siblings.