List of ambassadors of Iceland to the United Kingdom

Iceland's first ambassador to the United Kingdom was Pétur Benediktsson in 1941. Iceland's current ambassador to the United Kingdom is Sturla Sigurjónsson.

Ambassador of Iceland to the United Kingdom
Sendiherra Íslands á Bretlandi
Incumbent Sturla Sigurjónsson since 16 November 2020
Inaugural holder	Pétur Benediktsson
Formation	13 December 1941

List of ambassadors

#	Name	Appointment	Termination of mission
1	Pétur Benediktsson	13 December 1941	31 January 1944
2	Stefán Þorvarðsson	31 January 1944	30 December 1950
3	Agnar Klemens Jónsson	25 January 1951	11 June 1956
4	Kristinn Guðmundsson	27 September 1956	1 January 1961
5	Henrik Sveinsson Björnsson	1 January 1961	4 August 1965
6	Guðmundur Ívarsson Guðmundsson	21 September 1965	1 August 1971
7	Niels P. Sigurðsson	1 August 1971	19 February 1976
8	Sigurður Bjarnason	1 July 1976	11 November 1982
9	Einar Benediktsson	11 November 1982	28 November 1986
10	Ólafur Egilsson	28 November 1986	13 December 1989
11	Helgi Ágústsson	13 December 1989	3 May 1995
12	Benedikt Ásgeirsson	3 May 1995	16 July 1999
13	Þorsteinn Pálsson	16 July 1999	27 February 2003
14	Sverrir Haukur Gunnlaugsson	27 February 2003	9 February 2010
15	Benedikt Jónsson	9 February 2010	August 2014
16	Þórður Ægir Óskarsson	August 2014	14 November 2017
17	Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson	14 November 2017	16 November 2020
18	Sturla Sigurjónsson	16 November 2020^[1]	Incumbent

See also

• Iceland–United Kingdom relations
• Foreign relations of Iceland
• Ambassadors of Iceland

References

1. "Ambassador Sturla Sigurjónsson". Government of Iceland. Retrieved 20 November 2020.

External links

• List of Icelandic representatives (Icelandic Foreign Ministry website) (in Icelandic)