Fulbright Iceland Board of Directors

Honorary Co-Chairs

Icelandic representatives

Dr. Kristinn Andersen (Chair) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iceland. He received a Fulbright grant to study in the U.S., where he received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1993. He joined Marel, an Icelandic firm developing technology solutions internationally for food processing, where he held positions in product development and as a research manager for over 20 years. He joined the University of Iceland in 2014 where his research area is robotics, artificial intelligence and industrial applications.

Dr. Guðrún Nordal is the Director of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and a professor in medieval Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017.

Dr. Hjálmtýr Hafsteinsson is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Iceland.  He received a Fulbright grant in 1984 to study at Cornell University, where he received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1988.  He then joined the faculty of the University of Iceland and has been there ever since.  Hjálmtýr is a founding member of the Icelandic Teaching Academy.

Anna María Bogadóttir is an architect, author and the founder and owner of Úrbanistan, an architecture practice engaging at the intersection of architecture, art, and urban culture. Anna is a former professor in the Department of Architecture at the Iceland University of the Arts, where she was a faculty member from 2016 to 2026. She holds an M. Arch. from Columbia University, an M.A. in cultural studies from the University of Southern Denmark, and an M.Sc. in design, media, and communication from Copenhagen IT University.

Dr. Gísli Kort Kristófersson (alternate) is a professor of Nursing at the University of Akureyri, as well as holding adjunct faculty positions at the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing and the Faculty of Nursing and midwifery at the University of Iceland. Gísli worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatry in community mental health from 2008 to 2012 and in private practice from 2012 to 2014 in Minneapolis, MN. He was awarded his PhD in Nursing from the University of Minnesota in 2012, where he also was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from 2019-2020.

U.S. representatives

Erin Concors manages the U.S. Embassy’s public diplomacy section and its work in press, social media, grants, and exchanges.  She previously served as the General Services Officer in Skopje, North Macedonia, and as the Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia, as well as in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, St. Petersburg and Moscow.  She also previously worked as the Strategic Outreach Officer in ECA’s Cultural Heritage Center.  Prior to joining the Department of State, Erin served with USAID as the Senior Communications Advisor for its regional mission to Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.  Erin holds a BA in news-editorial journalism and an MBA, and has focused on strategic communications, international management, women’s economic empowerment, and humanitarian assistance throughout her career.

Dr. Pamela Innes (Treasurer) is Emerita Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Her work focuses on language retention and revitalization, as well as language ideologies. Currently, she is examining the role that language plays in the lives of people who have immigrated to Iceland. She began this work during her 2012 Fulbright grant to study the work being done by Icelandic language schools.

Dr. Jonathan McMurray is a Foreign Service Officer managing logistics and acquisitions at the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. As a Fulbright grantee in Berlin, he researched his doctoral dissertation and later earned a doctorate from Claremont Graduate School. His career as a civil servant began as a senior researcher on a Clinton Presidential Commission followed by two decades leading congressional investigations for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He joined the Foreign Service in 2022. Prior to arriving in Iceland, he served as Vice Consul to the U.S. Consulate in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Tiffany Nicole White is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. She received a Fulbright student grant to Iceland in 2019 during her doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Michael (“Mike”) Moorhead (alternate) is an Associate Professor of Applied Engineering at Reykjavik University.  He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY;  both 1999) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY; 2004, 2009).  Michael was previously a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) from 2007-2022.  A sabbatical opportunity from Rose gave Michael his first opportunity to live and work in Iceland.  In 2022, his family decided to return to Iceland full-time.