Post: | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Body: | Iceland |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Iceland.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Iceland |
Incumbent: | Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir |
Incumbentsince: | 9 April 2024 |
Department: | Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
Member Of: | Cabinet of Iceland |
Reports To: | Prime Minister |
Appointer: | Prime Minister |
Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Iceland |
First: | Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson |
The Minister for Foreign Affairs is the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir.
The Cabinet of Iceland Act no. 73/1969, which had been passed by the parliament 28 May 1969, took effect on 1 January 1970. Thus the Cabinet was formally established along with its ministries which had up until then not formally existed separately from the ministers.[1]