[6] Thora is also founder and owner of Hugveitan, a documentary production company that has created films including Hrunið (The Crash),[7] a TV-series on the economic crash in Iceland in 2008, At the Bottom of the Fiord: The Last Farmers in Ísafjardardjup[8] and Pioneers[9] – a series on the women that paved the road in Iceland in various fields.

Thora Arnorsdottir got a third of the votes and was a strong runner-up, despite being pregnant with her third child and giving birth to a daughter during the campaign.

degree in philosophy from the University of Iceland, an MA degree in international and development economics from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy, and Washington, DC, USA, where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Her grandfather Hannibal Valdimarsson, was a trade union leader, member of parliament and government minister.

Her mother was Nína S. Sveinsdóttir (1935-2018), a business administration graduate from the University of Iceland and a lifelong teacher.