Ragnar Arnalds
Template:Short description Template:Expand Icelandic Ragnar Arnalds (8 July 1938 – 15 September 2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>) was an Icelandic MP and twice cabinet minister. He studied literature and philosophy in Sweden from 1959 to 1961 and graduated with a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1968. He was editor of Frjáls þjóð in 1960.
Arnalds served as a Minister of Education and Transportation from 1978 to 1979 and Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1980 to 1983.<ref name="formerfinmins">Template:Cite web</ref> He was chairman of the People's Alliance (Alþýðubandalagið) from 1968 to 1977. He also served as chairman of Heimssýn, the Icelandic organisation opposed to membership of the European Union, from 2002 to 2009.
Arnalds served as a member of the board of governors of the Central Bank of Iceland. He was a member of the Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð).
Arnalds is also the author of several plays.
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- 1938 births
- Education ministers of Iceland
- Finance ministers of Iceland
- Left-Green Movement politicians
- Members of the Althing 1963–1967
- Members of the Althing 1967–1971
- Members of the Althing 1971–1974
- Members of the Althing 1974–1978
- Members of the Althing 1978–1979
- Members of the Althing 1979–1983
- Members of the Althing 1983–1987
- Members of the Althing 1987–1991
- Members of the Althing 1991–1995
- Members of the Althing 1995–1999
- Social Democratic Alliance politicians
- 2022 deaths