[1] Ögmundur graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1969 and from the University of Edinburgh in 1974 with a MA in history and political science.

[1] Apart from his political career, Ögmundur has been a journalist and a trade union leader, researcher, and part-time lecturer including at the University of Iceland.

[2] Ögmundur became Iceland's Minister of Health in February 2009, but resigned at the end of September in connection with the Icesave dispute.

[10] Second, his decision in 2011 to reject a plan by a Chinese business tycoon, Mr. Huang Nubo, to purchase a huge tract of land in the North East of Iceland attracted much geopolitical and media attention.

[11] Third, Ögmundur Jónasson refused all cooperation with FBI agents who had come to Iceland in 2011 to question Sigurdur Thordarson—on the pretext of investigating an impending hacking attack on Icelandic government computers—and directed them to leave the country because he believed that they were, in fact, engaged in a broader swoop to gather intelligence on WikiLeaks and in trying to frame its founder Julian Assange.