Foreign Service Career
Present: Head of Mission / Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Iceland in Uganda
2019-2023: First Secretary, Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Permanent Mission of Iceland to the UN
2016-2019: Specialist, Multilateral Development Cooperation & Climate Affairs, Directorate of Development Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Other relevant work experience
2016: M&E & Donor Reporting Consultant, School Meals Programme, World Food Programme Rwanda.
2014-2016: Research and policy consultant, Social Policy and Evaluation department, UNICEF Uganda
2014: Programme Assistant, Infrastructure Department, EU Delegation to Rwanda
Education
2013: Master of Public Administration, International Health Policy and Management, New York University (Wagner)
2011: Bachelor of Arts Degree, Economics (minor in Spanish), University of Iceland (exchange semester at University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
2003-2004: Spanish for foreign students, Universidad Espiritu Santo (Guayaquil) and Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
Foreign languages: English, beginner Spanish.
Hildigunnur Engilbertsdóttir was born in Iceland on 12 April 1983. She has one daughter, Anna Sólrún Hildigunnardóttir.