Jón Bjarnason

• Date of Birth: December 26th, 1943
• Party: Independent

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Parliamentary career

• Member of Althingi for the North Western Constituency 1999–2003 and for the Northwest Constituency since 2003.
  

Party group

• Chairman of the Left Green Movement's parliamentary group 2009.

Previous committees

• Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee 2012–2013.
• Member of the Economic Affairs and Trade Committee 2012–2013.
• Member of the Economy and Taxation Committee 2009.
• Member of the Budget Committee 1999–2009 (Vice-Chairman 2009).
• Member of the Icelandic Delegation to the Conference of Parlamentarians of the Arctic Region 2007–2009.
• Member of the Trade Committee 2007–2009.
• Member of the Fisheries Committee 2006–2007.
• Member of the Agriculture Committee 2003–2007.
• Member of the Transport and Communications Committee 1999–2003.
• Member of the EU-Iceland joint Parliamentary Committee 2012–2013.

Ministerial career

• Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture 2009–2011.