Vaka Lind Birkisdóttir has been hired as the new Managing Director at the office of the Student Council of the University of Iceland. Vaka Lind is a 26-year-old master’s student in International Politics at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, from which she will graduate this autumn. She has previously completed a BA degree in Sociology with Economics as a minor at the University of Iceland. Vaka Lind graduated from Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð.

The Student Council’s work is not unknown to Vaka, as she was a vice-representative of the Student Council 2017-2018, on behalf of the School of Social Sciences, and then the main representative for the year 2018-2019. In addition, she served on the board of the School of Social Sciences and was a member of the Student Council’s Culture and Social Events Committee.

Vaka Lind was also active in within her field of studies and was the treasurer of NORM, the student association of Sociology, as well as organizing the association’s events. Vaka Lind is currently a master representative on the MSF board (Doctors Without Borders) at Trinity College.

Vaka has previous work experience as a treasurer at Skatturinn as well as being in customer service for two years. Before that she worked for UN Women. Vaka was given very good recommendation and it was mentioned in particular how solution-oriented, reliable, sociable and open she was in communication.

Vaka Lind has extensive knowledge of student affairs, experience in financial management, the ability to work independently, willingness to work with the Student Council as a whole and education that is useful in the work of the Managing Director. Due to this, the Board of the Student Council decided to hire Vaka Lind Birkisdóttir to work at the rights office of the Student Council of the University of Iceland in the position of Managing Director and looks forward to working with her for the benefit of students.