Olafur Ragnar Grimsson - age: 80

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson

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ABOUT

After serving as his country's Minister of Finance, this People's Alliance Party-turned-Independent politician took office as fifth President of Iceland. He won his first election in 1996 and, in 2012, began his fifth presidential term.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he served the Reykjavik constituency in the Icelandic Althing (parliament).In the early 1980s, he was one of several prominent liberal thinkers to enter into a well-publicized debate with the conservative American economist Milton Friedman.

BEFORE FAME

After receiving his doctorate in political science from the University of Manchester, he began teaching at the University of Iceland.

PERSONAL LIFE

Following the death of his first wife, Guorun Katrin Porbergsdottir, he married Israeli businesswoman Dorrit Moussaieff. His first marriage resulted in twins named Guorun and Svanhildur.

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World Leader Olafur Ragnar Grimsson were born on Friday, birthstone is Emerald, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Goat, it is 128 days until Olafur Ragnar Grimsson next birthday.

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