# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gylfi-magnusson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:51:31.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gylfi-magnusson"
name: "Gylfi Magnússon"
slug: "gylfi-magnusson"
description: "Gylfi Magnússon is an Icelandic economist, a professor at University of Iceland and former chair of the Icelandic Competition Authority (Samkeppniseftirlitið). He was Minister for Economic Affairs in the coalition government of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. He served as Minister of Business Affairs from 1 February 2009 until 1 October the same year and then served as Minister of Economic Affairs until 2 September 2010."
tagline: "Icelandic politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gylfi_Magnusson%2C_handelsminister_(sda)_Island._Pa_nordiskt_finansministermotet_i_Kopenhamn_2009-12-04.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.142857142857143
  historical:           6.802376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جيلفى ماجنوسون"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylfi_Magn%C3%BAsson"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylfi_Magn%C3%BAsson"
    title: "Gylfi Magnússon"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylfi_Magn%C3%BAsson"
    title: "Gylfi Magnússon"
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  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylfi_Magn%C3%BAsson"
    title: "Gylfi Magnússon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump