The word on the street is that Mar Gudmundsson, Chief Economist & Director of the Economics Department at the Central Banki is set to be appointed the new Central Bank Governor. This is literally according to The Word On the Street column at Eyjan.is.
His bio reads like this:
Mar Gudmundsson is the Chief Economist and the Director of the Economics Department of the Central Bank of Iceland. He has a BA-honours degree in economics from the University of Essex and a M.Phil. degree in economics from the University of Cambridge England. His main research interests are in the fields of inflation, exchange rates, monetary policy, financial stability and pensions. He has published several articles in books and economic journals. He is on the editorial board of Economic & Financial Review and was a guest editor of an issue on monetary and exchange rate policies in the Nordic countries. Gudmundsson has been a member of several ministerial appointed committees in Iceland and has served as a consultant for the IMF. Gudmundsson was the chairman of the board of one of the biggest pension funds in Iceland 1989-1992, has been a member of two government appointed committees on pensions and has written several papers on the pension system in Iceland.
Mar’s resume reads wonderfully next to the one of David Oddson and other politicians that have made the position their own. Wish him good luck, he’ll need all he can get.
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