Karen Áslaug Vignisdóttir appointed acting Chief Economist and Director of Economics and Monetary Policy

Karen Áslaug Vignisdóttir has been appointed acting Chief Economist and Director of Economics and Monetary Policy at the Central Bank of Iceland. Karen began working as an economist with the Central Bank in 2006 and has been head of Analysis and Publications in the Bank’s Economics and Monetary Policy Department since 2018. During that period, she has also held the position of Deputy Chief Economist and has served as secretary of the Monetary Policy Committee. Karen received a Master’s degree in Economics from Aarhus University in Denmark in 2005 and completed her undergraduate studies in Economics at the University of Iceland in 2003.