Ómar R. Valdimarsson

Ómar is a Supreme Court attorney with a varied background in international media and business. He completed a B.Sc. in Print Journalism and Broadcast Journalism at Suffolk University/Emerson College in Boston in 2002, working alongside his studies for the Icelandic newspapers DV and Fréttablaðið. After graduating he founded the public relations firm Íslensk almannatengsl ehf.

In 2005 he completed an MA in International Relations and History at the London School of Economics. In 2013 he graduated from Reykjavík University with a BA and an ML in law. Ómar was a Bloomberg News reporter in Iceland from 2009 to 2017.

He was admitted to practise before the District Courts in 2015, the Court of Appeal (Landsréttur) in 2021 and the Supreme Court of Iceland in 2024.