The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Icelandic: Utanríkisráðherra) is the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir.

The Cabinet of Iceland Act no.

73/1969, which had been passed by the parliament 28 May 1969, took effect on 1 January 1970.

Thus the Cabinet was formally established along with its ministries which had up until then not formally existed separately from the ministers.