Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson

Tryggvi Þór Herbertsson (born 17 January 1963) was a member of the Icelandic Parliament from 2009 to 2013, and is the chairman and founder of Taurus SLF, an independent corporate and investment advisory firm.

Education and academic work Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson graduated in industrial administration from the Technical College of Iceland in 1992, as a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Iceland in 1995, and finished his Ph.D. studies at the University of Aarhus in 1998. He was director of the Institute of Economic Studies at the University of Iceland from 1995 to 2006. He was lecturer (1995), associate professor (1998) and professor (2000) at the University of Iceland. He has been a professor of economics at Reykjavik University since 2009 (currently on leave). He is married to Sigurveig María Ingvadóttir and has four children.

Works Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson is an independent investor and advisor at his own company, Taurus SLF. He was a Member of Parliament in Iceland from 2009 to 2013 for the conservative Independence Party,