Kristján Þór Júlíusson

Kristján Þór Júlíusson

Kristján Þór Júlíusson is the current mayor of Akureyri, Iceland. He was born in 1957 and raised in the town of Dalvík. He completed degrees in Icelandic, literature and teaching at the University of Iceland but most of his education has been concerned with seamanship. He is a certified steersman and captain and worked in that field for several years.

In 1986 he became the mayor of Dalvík for the Independence Party and remained in office until 1994 when he moved to Ísafjörður and took on the job of mayor there until 1997. In the 1998 municipal elections he ran for office in Akureyri and has since been credited for the increased support for the Independence Party in Akureyri at the expense of the Progressive Party, which had been the most powerful in Akureyri for decades. The first term of Kristján's mayorship (1998-2002) coincided with the coalition between the Independence Party and Alliance but in the current term the Independence Party has a coalition with the Progressive Party.