2016 Icelandic presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 25 June 2016. President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, elected in 1996, stepped down after serving five consecutive terms. The history professor Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was elected after receiving a plurality of 39.1% of the vote. He took office on 1 August, as the first new president of Iceland in twenty years.
Image: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (2017 03 30)
Image: Andri Snaer Magnason
Image: Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the People's Alliance and served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991.
Ólafur in 2011
Ólafur with President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on 19 April 2002
Ólafur during the WEF 2013
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson during his visit to The Doon School in India, seen here with the school's headmaster Peter McLaughlin