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Co-founder of Auður Capital; President of Iceland from 2024
Iceland · b. 1968
Co-founded the Icelandic investment firm Auður Capital in 2007, before the country's banking collapse. She later led the B Team and was elected President of Iceland in 2024.
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And I'm not here to say that men are to blame for the crisis and what happened in my country. But I can surely tell you that in my country, much like on Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector, and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems.
Recorded TEDWomen 2010, 8 December 2010 source
We also believe in straight-talking, telling it as it is, using simple language that people understand, telling people about the downsides as well as the potential upsides, and even telling the bad news that no one wants to utter, like our lack of belief in the sustainability of the Icelandic financial sector that already we had months before the collapse hit us.
Recorded TEDWomen 2010, 8 December 2010 source
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