Very short CV

Thorvaldur Gylfason is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Iceland and Research Associate at CESifo (Center for Economic Studies) at the University of Munich. A Princeton Ph.D., he has worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., taught at Princeton, edited the European Economic Review, consulted for international organizations, and published some 300 papers and 24 books as well as about 1,200 newspaper articles plus some 140 songs for voice, piano, and other instruments as well as mixed choir. He was one of 25 representatives in Iceland‘s Constitutional Council in session from 1 April to 29 July 2011, elected by the nation and appointed by parliament to revise Iceland’s constitution.