Employees

Embla Eir Oddsdottir is Director of the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and Director of the Polar Law Institute.

Embla has experience in research, project management, and policy-relevant issues in the Arctic including shipping, resource extraction, climate change impacts, resilience, gender and youth.   Embla has taught courses at University of Akureyri and Western Kentucky University, where she holds adjunct professor position. With MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from LSE in London and Graduate Diploma in Polar Law from University of Akureyri, Embla´s educational background includes socio-economic development, anthropology, geography, international relations, governance, indigenous and gender studies, and political science.

• +354 864 5979
• embla@polarlaw.is

Monika M. Stefánsdóttir is Project Manager of the Polar Law Institute.

Monika’s educational background is MA in Polar Law and BA in Socio- economic development from the University of Akureyri. Her research interests and experiences include legal issues in the Arctic, social and economic development in the North, natural resource extraction, extractive industries in the Arctic and Large Scale Projects in Greenland and Iceland. During her studies Monika was on the Board of Governors for The University of the Arctic as a student representative. After her graduation from the Polar Law program she has been working for both the Icelandic Cooperation Network and Stefansson Arctic Institute along with assisting at the Into the Arctic exhibition in Akureyri.     

• +354 845 8010
• monika@polarlaw.is