bio
Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir (b. 26. August, 1974) bases her work on a vision that is committed to contextual thinking, a balance between creative and rational thinking, passion and the potentials of individuals, rights and responsibilities and a deep respect for human beings and nature.
Combining tools from across disciplines, her projects range from post-conflict project management to poetry and the creation of an innovative university study programme.
After graduating with a BA degree in anthropology, she was awarded the Icelandic Students’ Service grant for her internet-based dissertation on peaceful resistance during the wars in former Yugoslavia. She worked as a journalist and a columnist focusing mainly on international issues, but has also written about culture and the arts. After graduating from the London School of Economics she became the programme manager for UNIFEM in Kosovo and later a Professional with the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland.
Since 2004, Hrund has committed herself to writing, consultancy and entrepreneurship. She has done consultancy for individual donors, the UN and the MoFA. She was one of the main creators of the UNIFEM Butterfly week in 2008 and co-created short UNIFEM films, which were premiered on the National TV Station. She founded Krád consulting in 2008 and her first play was put on stage at the Reykjavik Art Festival in 2009. She created and launched the Prisma diploma study programme during the same time, in collaboration with the Academy of the Arts, University of Bifröst and the ReykjavikAkademia. Prisma was nominated as one of educational models in the Nordic countries that best respond to a changing situation in the work market. Hrund sometimes lectures in universities in Iceland on creative and critical thinking on the one hand, and post-conflict reconstruction and gender on the other. She has presented at conferences in Iceland and internationally and has appeared on various occasions in the media. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011.In late 2011 Hrund exhibited and published a three dimensional artwork; a book of poetry in collaboration with a painter and an architect.
Currently, Hrund does consultancy, gives talks and co-creates a documentary about intuition with Klikk Productions.