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Ragnhildur Arnljótsdóttir
Ragnhildur Arnljótsdóttir is the Secretary General of the Icelandic Prime Minister's Office, since 2009.

Personal Life and Education
Ragnhildur is born on the 20th of June 1961, in the town of Húsavík in North-Eastern Iceland. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Iceland in 1991. She is married and has three children.

Career
From 1982 to 1988 she had worked as a writer, news reporter and a program organiser for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. From 1991-1993 she was the director of the Icelandic Lawyers Union and later the chairman of the board from 1999-2002. In 1993 she took the position of a lawyer at the Standing Committee Division at the Icelandic Parliament Alþingi and in 1995 she started working at the Ministry of Health and Social Security, first as the Head of Division and later, from 2002-2005, as the Director General of Administration. While in this capacity she participated in various international work, for example joining the Nordic Ministers council at the United Nations and the European Parliament.

During this time, she worked with specialist committees both in Iceland and in the European Union on topics such as housing issues, disability matters, labour law and labour protection, gender equality, parental leave issues and social issues. From 2002-2004 she was the counsellor of Health and Social Security at the Icelandic Mission to the EU in Brussels.

Current
In 2004 she became the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and on the 1st of February 2009 Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir assigned her the position of the secretary general of the Prime Minister’s Office which she currently still holds.