Stefán Eiríksson was born in Akureyri on 6 June 1970. He completed his compulsory schooling at Hagaskóli in 1986, matriculated from the Hamrahlíð Grammar School in 1990 and took his qualifying examination in Law at the University of Iceland in 1996. He received a licence to plead cases as a District Court Advocate in 1997.Concurrently with his studies, Stefán worked as a journalist on the newspapers Tíminn (1990-91) and Morgunblaðið (1991-96). He taught Law at the Hamrahlíð Grammar School from 1994 to 1996, worked as a legal advisor in the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1996 to 1999 and was a counsellor on Judicial and Internal Affairs at Iceland’s Permanent Mission to the European Union in Brussels from 1999 to 2001. In 2001 he was appointed Director of Police and Judicial Affairs in the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs and Deputy Permanent Secretary in the same ministry in 2002. In 2002 he also took the position of Chairman of the Board of Neyðarlínan (the emergency telephone service). He was appointed Reykjavík Metropolitan Police Commissioner as from 15 July 2006 and oversaw the preparations for the opening of the office, which began operations formally on 1 January 2007. On 1 September 2014 he was appointed Director of the Department of Welfare of the City of Reykjavík. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer at the City of Reykjavík in January 2017. On March 1, 2020 he was appointed Director of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service - Ríkisútvarpið, or RÚV, which is an independent public service broadcaster, comprising television, radio and online services.Specialties: Stefán has served on many government committees. For example, he was in charge of the task committee on new policing structure in Iceland. He was Iceland’s representative in the Task Force on Organised Crime in the Baltic Sea Region 2004-2006, a member of the negotiating committee dealing with the review of the Defense Agreement between Iceland and the USA in 2006 and represented Iceland on various committees working under the Schengen scheme, including CATS and SCIFA, from 1999 to 2006.
Listed skills include Police, Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention, and 35 others.