Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson

{{Short description|Icelandic politician (born 1968)}}

{{Icelandic name|Gunnar}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson

|image = Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson at the Pentagon 2014.jpg

|office1 = Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture

|term_start1 = 7 April 2016

|term_end1 = 11 January 2017

|primeminister1 = Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson

|predecessor1 = Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson

|successor1 = Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir

|office2 = Minister of Foreign Affairs

|term_start2 = 23 May 2013

|term_end2 = 7 April 2016

|primeminister2 = Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson

|predecessor2 = Össur Skarphéðinsson

|successor2 = Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|6|9|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sauðárkrókur, Iceland

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Progressive Party (until 2017)
Centre Party

}}

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson (born 9 June 1968) is an Icelandic politician for the Centre Party.

He is a member of the Althingi (Iceland's parliament) for the Centre Party for the Northwest of Iceland constituency since 2017. He was the chairman of the Progressive Party from 2009 to 2013.http://www.althingi.is/altext/cv.php4?nfaerslunr=722 CV from Althingi On 23 May 2013, Gunnar Bragi was appointed the minister for foreign affairs. In 2017, he joined the Centre Party formed by his close friend Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and ran for party in the 2017 elections.http://www.mfa.is/news-and-publications/nr/7694 Ministry for Foreign Affairs He is currently chairman of the Center Party parliamentary group.

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