Short Bio

Árni Bragason is the Director of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland and has been a Chair of the UNU-LRT Board since 2016. Árni has worked as the Director of the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen) from 2010 - 2016, an expert at EFLA Consulting Engineers from 2010 - 2016 and the Director of the department of Nature Conservation at the Environmental Agency of Iceland from 2003 - 2007. Árni holds a Ph.D. in Plant Genetics from the Agricultural University in Copenhagen with genetics and physiology as minors and a B.Sc. from the University of Iceland.