Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Icelandic politician, 5th President of Iceland
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Place of Birth: Ísafjörður, Westfjords, Iceland
About Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (Icelandic: ['ou?lav?r 'raknar 'krims?n] (listen); born 14 May 1943) is an Icelandic politician who was President of Iceland from 1996 to 2016.
- He was first elected in 1996, and was elected unopposed for a second term in 2000.
- Ólafur was re-elected for a third term in 2004 (with opposition), for a fourth term in 2008 (unopposed), and for a record fifth and final term in 2012 (with opposition). Ólafur announced in his New Year's message on 1 January 2016, that he would be stepping down from the presidency at the end of his fifth term on 1 August 2016, after twenty years in office.
- However, he announced in a press conference on 18 April 2016 that he would be running for re-election, in light of the political instability caused by the release of the Panama Papers two weeks earlier.
- After Guðni Th.
- Jóhannesson and Davíð Oddsson announced their candidacies, he again changed his mind and on 9 May declared he would not run.Since the end of his presidency, Ólafur has been serving as Chairman of the Arctic Circle, a non-profit organization, and as Chairman of the International Renewable Energy Agency's Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation.
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