The Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs (Icelandic: Mennta- og menningarmálaráðherra) is the head of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
The current Minister of Education and Children's Affairs is Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir.
[1] 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.