Gísli Sveinbjörn Einarsson (born 12 December 1945) is an Icelandic politician and former member of the Althing.[1] A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Western constituency from September 1993 to May 2003.[2]
Gísli joined the State Cement Factory in Akranes in 1963 as an apprenticemechanic and was a mechanic at the factory from 1964 to 1976.[1][4] He did an apprenticeship in cement machine maintenance at Aalborg Portland in Denmark from 1976 to 1977 and was a mechanic at the factory from 1977 to 1979.[1][4] Returning to Iceland, he was foreman at the State Cement Factory from 1979 to 1992 before working on computer-controlled machine maintenance at the factory from 1992 to 1993.[1][4]
Gísli was a member of the municipal council in Akranes from 1986 to 1993 and served as its chairman (1990) and president (1991–1992).[1][4] He was Mayor of Akranes from 2006 to 2010.[5][6] He was a substitute member of the Althing in December 1991 (for Eiður Guðnason) and in November 2004 (for Jóhann Ársælsson).[2][4] He was appointed to the Althing in September 1993 following the resignation of Eiður Guðnason.[1][4][7]
Gísli married Ólöf Edda Guðmundsdóttir in 1964 and has two sons and a daughter.[1][3]
^ ab"Í brennidepli". Skagablaðið (in Icelandic). Vol. 7, no. 13. Akranes, Iceland. 29 March 1990. p. 9. ISSN2672-6785. Retrieved 6 November 2024 – via Timarit.is.
^"Bæjarstjórar Akraness" (in Icelandic). Akranes, Iceland: Akranes Regional Archives. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.