Guest Speaker StGIS Inspirational Speaker Series

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]It was such an honour to speak at St Gilgen international boarding school in Austria. What a beautiful town and an impressive group of students, parents and faculty.   [x_pullquote type=”left”]The speakers programme is co-founded with […]

InnSæi in Zug, Switzerland

As part of the worldwide distribution of InnSæi, we continue to follow the film and participate in Q&As after screening. This time, it was the local film club, FLIZ (= Film lovers of Zug) in Switzerland, Canton Zug, which organised a screening of InnSæi on March 13. We were thrilled that our screening sold out FLIZ has […]

InnSæi at the Scharlatan Theater für Veränderung

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text][x_pullquote type=”left”]InnSæi screened at the fabulous Scharlatan Theater für Veränderung in Hamburg, Germany[/x_pullquote] “Normally, it is our job to inspire others, to give impulses, to make changes and new thinking. Last night we were inspired: Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir […]

InnSæi – the Sea within on Netflix

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text][x_pullquote type=”left”]InnSæi will be on Netflix U.S. from 1 February 2017[/x_pullquote] Happy New Year! We begin 2017 with the great news that InnSæi – the Sea within is now available in Netflix for Latin America – from […]

2016 í hnotskurn

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] INNSÆI – THE SEA WITHIN Heimildarmyndin InnSæi – the Sea within kom út um mitt ár, en við Kristín erum leikstjórar, ég skrifa handrit og Kristín er framleiðandi. InnSæi dreifist um heiminn á Netflix… [x_pullquote […]

2016 in a nutshell

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]INNSÆI – THE SEA WITHIN The documentary film InnSæi – the Sea within was released. Me and Kristín Ólafsdóttir directed it, I wrote the script and Kristín produced it. InnSæi goes around the world and on […]

The importance of girls’ education

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] At the Yale Chapter of Circle of Women, Annual Volunteer Summit William L. Harkness Hall, Room 203, Yale University 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM. 12. November I was honoured to be in an interactive panel […]

Changing the Global Landscape of Gender Equality at Yale Law School

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Changing the Global Landscape of Gender Equality Lessons from Afghanistan, Iceland, Kosovo, Mexico and Somalia 12:10 to 1:00 PM on November 10, 2016 Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., Room 121 [x_pullquote type=”left”]”…everything from corporate culture […]

EuroSOM hosts: Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir, Yale World Fellow

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] IV. Chapters: Lunch talk Thursday, November 17, 2016 11:45am – 12:45pm, Evans Hall – 2220, Yale School of Management (SOM) EuroSOM, the European club at the Yale School of Management, invited me to be a lunch speaker at the […]

Intuition – When Do We Need It Most?

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text class=”cs-ta-left”] [x_pullquote type=”left”]Intuition is the basis of the decisions we make, mostly without us realizing it.[/x_pullquote] Yale University, CT Jackson Institute of Global Affairs 15. November, 2016, 8.30-9.15 While intuition is sometimes dismissed as an […]