Speeches by the President of Iceland
A selection of speeches in English translation.
- 11.02.2024 Address at a memorial gathering for mariners lost at sea
- 14.01.2024 Address at the beginning of a volcanic eruption at Grindavík
- 01.01.2024 New Year Address 2024
- 12.09.2023 Address at the opening of Alþingi
- 23.08.2023 Address at the Third Crimea Platform Summit
- 03.07.2023 Address at the End of Eruption Festival in the Westman Islands
- 29.05.2023 Address at a state dinner during a State Visit to Canada
- 27.04.2023 Address at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 01.01.2023 New Year Address, 1 January 2023
- 03.12.2022 Keynote Speech at the WAW! Conference in Tokyo
- 19.10.2022 State Dinner in the Honour of the President of Finland
- 13.09.2022 Address at the Opening of Althingi
- 25.08.2022 Speech at a dinner in honour of the Presidents of the Baltic States
- 10.05.2022 Nationalism in Turbulent Times. Lecture at the Univeristy of the Faroe Islands
- 06.05.2022 Address to President Zelensky at the Althingi
- 01.01.2022 New Year Address, 1 January 2022
- 23.11.2021 Adress at the Opening of Althingi
- 12.11.2021 Green Hydrogen Symposium
- 12.11.2021 Address on the 75th Anniversary of UNESCO in Paris
- 13.10.2021 Address at the Opening of Danish Business Visit to Iceland
- 08.10.2021 The Imagine Forum
- 04.04.2021 Easter Sunday Address
- 01.01.2021 New Year Address, 1 January 2021
- 16.12.2020 The President and the Constitution - Four Years on
- 01.12.2020 Address on Sovereignty Day
- 09.10.2020 A Greeting to the People of Iceland
- 05.10.2020 Opening of the Conference Faith Action for Nature
- 01.10.2020 Address at the Opening of Althingi
- 01.08.2020 Inaugural Address into the Office of the President of Iceland
- 12.04.2020 Address on Easter Day 2020
- 04.03.2020 Speech at the University of Warsaw
- 04.03.2020 Speech at ODIHR Headquarters, Warsaw
- 03.03.2020 Speech at a State Dinner in Warsaw
- 16.02.2020 Address at a celebration of the centenary of the Supreme Court of Iceland
- 01.01.2020 New Year Address, 1 January 2020
- 10.10.2019 Address at The Imagine Forum: Women for Peace
- 24.09.2019 Speech at a dinner hosted by the Government of Greenland, Nuuk
- 10.09.2019 Address at the opening of Althingi
- 17.05.2019 One Hundred Years' Anniversary of Icelandic National League NA
- 10.04.2019 Speech at the St. Petersburg State University
- 01.01.2019 New Year Address, 1 January 2019
- 01.12.2018 Celebration of the Centenary of Icelandic Sovereignty
- 23.11.2018 Legacies of 1918 in 2018: The Role of Historians and Heads of State
- 11.09.2018 Address at the Opening of Alþingi
- 18.07.2018 Address at a Special Session of Alþingi at Þingvellir
- 16.05.2018 Iceland and Finland: Frontrunners in Bio and Health Technologies
- 15.05.2018 Speech at the State Dinner in Helsinki
- 15.05.2018 Table speech in Helsinki City Hall
- 10.05.2018 The Future of the Icelandic Language; New York
- 05.05.2018 Speech at the Opening of the Nordic Museum; Seattle
- 18.01.2018 Are we Unique? The Need for National Identity in the Age of Globalization; Stockholm
- 17.01.2018 Address at a Gala Dinner Given by King Carl Gustaf XVI of Sweden; Stockholm
- 01.01.2018 New Year Address, 1 January 2018
- 14.12.2017 Inauguration of the Althingi
- 13.10.2017 Speech at the Opening of the Arctic Circle Assembly
- 13.09.2017 Speech at the World Seafood Congress
- 12.09.2017 Inauguration of the Althingi
- 09.09.2017 Jón Sigurðsson Memorial Lecture: Introductory Speech
- 13.08.2017 Speech at the World Championships for Icelandic Horses, Oirschot, The Netherlands
- 29.05.2017 Speech at the IFSW Social Workers European Conference
- 05.05.2017 Speech on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty
- 25.04.2017 Speech at the Conference What Works? - The Social Progress Imperative
- 20.04.2017 Speech at the Inauguration of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir International Centre
- 30.03.2017 Speech at an International Arctic Forum, Arkhangelsk
- 23.03.2017 Icelanders or Norwegians? Leifur, Snorri, and National Identity then and now, Bergen
- 21.03.2017 Concluding speech at the conference 'Global Challenges - Nordic Experiences', Oslo
- 30.01.2017 Address at the Reception of Refugees from Syria to Iceland
- 25.01.2017 Innovation, Sustainability and Food Production: Speech at Dansk Industri, Copenhagen
- 01.01.2017 New Year Address, 1 January 2017
- 06.12.2016 Inauguration of the Althingi
- 20.10.2016 Constitutions – Poetry or Prose?
- 07.10.2016 The Legacy of the Reykjavík Summit
- 07.10.2016 Speech at the launching of Höfði Reykjavík Peace Center
- 24.09.2016 Address at the conference "Resuscitation 2016"
- 26.08.2016 Opening Address at the Start-up Reykjavík Investor’s Day
- 01.08.2016 Inauguration speech of the new President of Iceland