Professor of Sociology at the University of Iceland
Researcher and Member of the Steering Board of EDDA – The EDDA Center at the University of Iceland is an interdisciplinary research center in critical contemporary research, with emphasis on (in)equality and difference; societal and political ruptures; the welfare state; and security and development. Through its academic activities, EDDA’s goal is also to influence public policy and societal debates, especially in the fields of gender equality; social policies; participatory democracy; and foreign security and development policies.

E-mail: olafsson@hi.is.