Dóra Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir

Director of Public Health at the Directorate of Health, Iceland

Dóra Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir is Director of Public Health at the Directorate of Health in Iceland. She is a trained clinical and organisational psychologist and holds a PhD in public health. Her research interests focus on wellbeing and finding reliable measures to evaluate population´s wellbeing. Dóra´s passion lies in finding effective ways for individuals, institutions and societies to flourish. She has served as a governmental expert on mental health for the EU and on Wellbeing Economy for WHO. She leads a task on Wellbeing Economy in an EU founded joint action programme and is the chair of the Wellbeing Economy Forum. She is co-author of the book ‘Creating The World We Want To Live In’. Dóra is also a Director of Graduate Diploma programme on Positive Psychology at the University of Iceland, and past president of the European Network for Positive Psychology.