[1] Sigríður joined the Icelandic foreign service in 1978 and started her diplomatic career in the Soviet Union in 1979 at the height of the Cold War.
She has served as Iceland's ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
While posted in Paris she also served as the Permanent Representative to OECD, to FAO and to UNESCO during the time when Iceland had a seat on the executive board.
[1] In 2008 Sigríður took a temporary leave of absence from the foreign service and started a private company, “Nýttu kraftinn,” to train and empower 1100 job seekers in the wake of the Icelandic banking crisis.
[3] She is in the steering group guiding the future work of Icelandic diplomacy and leads a unit of home-based ambassadors in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.