Faculty
Aldís Guðný Sigurðardóttir
Assistant Professor and Director of the MBA program
Negotiations, Cultural Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Behavioral Economics and Procurement Management.
Anna Birgitta Thoresson
Assistant Professor
Labor economics and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on wage setting and wage structure, gender differences in the labor market and immigration.
Axel Hall
Assistant Professor
MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, London School of Economics. BSc in Economics from University of Iceland.
- Econometrics, Statistics, Transport Economics, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Health Economics, Micro- and Macroeconomics.
Ásgeir Jónsson
Adjunct
MSc in Food Science from University of Iceland. BSc in Fisheries Science from University of Akureyri.
Fields of research
- Fisheries Science. Export of fresh white fish, quality, cost and market analysis.
Ender Demir
Assistant Professor
PhD in Accounting and Finance from Marmara University, Turkey.
- Corporate finance
- Cryptocurrencies
- Financial economics
- Hospitality financial management.
Ewa Ryszarda Lazarczyk Carlson
Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
IO, Energy economics, Market structure, Microeconometrics, Electricity markets, Environmental economics.
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Freyja Th. Sigurðardóttir
Adjunct
Fields of research:
Marketing, Health, Sustainability, Tourism
Freyr Halldórsson
Assistant Professor
PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. MA in Industrial/Organisational Psychology from New York University. BA in Psychology from University of Iceland.
- Organisational Psychology, Industrial Relations.
Friðrik Már Baldursson
Professor
MSc in economics from University of Iceland. BSc in mathematics and mathematical statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Gothenburg.
- Economics, mathematic, statistics and applied probability.
Hallur Þór Sigurðsson
Assistant Professor
PhD in Business from Copenhagen Business School, CBS. MSc in Business Administration and Philosophy from CBS and BSc in Computer Science from RU.
- Entrepreneurship, organisational creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and process method.
Katrín Ólafsdóttir
Chair and Associate Professor
PhD in Labour Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. MA in Labour Economics, Minor in Resource Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. A.B. (Advanced Bachelor's) in Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.
- Labour economics.
- Course: International and labour economics.
Kristján Vigfússon
Adjunct
MBA from RU and MA in Political Science from UI
- Strategic management, strategy implementation obstacles key success factors and models.
Margret G. Flóvenz
Adjunct
Auditing, sustainability reporting, accounting, buisiness ethics
Courses: Auditing, Auditing Standards and Ethics in Accounting and Auditing. Introduction to Auditing.
Marina Candi
Professor and Director of the Research Centre in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CRIE)
- Innovation, technological innovation, service innovation, design-driven innovation, experience-based innovation, social innovation, interactive marketing, entrepreneurship.
Patrick Weiss
Assistant Professor
- Empirical asset pricing
- Intersection of asset pricing and corporate finance
- Corporate bond research
- Capital structure theory
Susanne Durst
Professor
MSc in Financial Economics, University of Skovde
Diploma in Business Administration from University of Applied Sciences and Arts (FHDW) Hanover.
Knowledge management, knowledge risk management, responsible digitalization, sustainable development, business transfers, entrepreneurial smaller organizations.
Sveinn Viðar Guðmundsson
Professor
PhD from Cranfield University, England; MBA, MSc, BSc from Florida Institute of Technology, USA.
- Strategic management, alliances and mergers, entrepreneurship, performance and bankruptcy prediction models, and strategic foresight in relation to sustainability and product development.
Unnar Friðrik Pálsson
Adjunct
- Certified accountant
- Courses: Financial accounting practice and standards I and II.
Valdimar Sigurðsson
Professor
PhD in Marketing with speciality in Consumer Psychology from Cardiff University. MSc in Business Administration from University of Iceland and Aarhus University. BA in Psychology form University of Iceland.
- Consumer behaviour analysis (consumer psychology), in-store experiments (retailing) and experimental analysis in digital marketing.
Vishnu M. Ramachandran Girija
Assistant Professor
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management - Marketing 2008 from Bharathidasan Institute of Management - Bangalore, India. Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering 2004 from National Institute of Technology - Warangal, India
- Marketing, Brand Management.
