Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson
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Hjörtur Jónas Guðmundsson (born May 2, 1978) is the director of Heimssýn, an Icelandic organization opposed to the entry of Iceland into the European Union. Hjörtur is a founding member of Heimssýn (founded in 2002). He has been a board member of the organisation since 2004 and was a board member of TEAM, the European alliance of EU-critical movements, on behalf of Heimssýn 2005-2006. A substitute member since 2006. Furthermore Hjörtur has been editor of the website Heimssyn.is since 2003.
Hjörtur is educated in sociology at the FNV gymnasium at Sauðárkrókur and in political history at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Hjörtur is also the director of the conservative free-market think tank Veritas and a fellow of the Copenhagen Institute. Hjörtur is a member of the Icelandic Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn).
Hjörtur has edited the website 'EU Related News From Iceland' since 2004 and the website Íhald.is since 2005 (íhald in Icelandic means "conservatism"). He is also a writer for The Brussels Journal.
