[3] He started his business career as an employee in the accountancy firm Rasmussen og Weihe in Tórshavn 1993–2000.

[4] In 2007 he left his position as the Finance Minister of the Faroe Islands in order to become the general manager of the large scale building project SMI Stóratjørn in Hoyvík, planned by Icelandic business people.

[3] He has been a board member of the Vágar Airport, Kollafjord Pelagic and of a few other trading companies in Tórshavn.

[5] Bárður á Steig Nielsen was elected to the Faroese parliament representing Norðurstreymoy in the periods of 2002–2004 and 2004–2008.

He was the finance minister in the first cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard from 2004, but left the position in order to become the leader of the Stóra Tjørn building project, which was later cancelled because of the financial crisis.