Valdimar Víðisson

Valdimar Víðisson is the mayor of Hafnarfjörður and the leader of the Progressive Party. Valdimar was elected to the Hafnarfjörður town council in the local elections on 14 May 2022 and has since been the chairman of the town board. The change of mayor is in accordance with an agreement between the Independence Party and the Progressive Party after the local elections in May 2022, whereby the leader of the Independence Party would hold the post of mayor until 1. January 2025, when the leader of the Progressive Party would take over. 

Valdimar is well-versed in local affairs in Hafnarfjörður. He served as an alternate town councillor for the Progressive Party in Hafnarfjörður during the 2018 to 2022 term and was chairman of the Family Council during that period. 

Valdimar is a qualified primary school teacher with further qualifications in management. He was head teacher at Grenivíkurskóli for four years from 2004. In 2008, Valdimar moved to Hafnarfjörður, began working as deputy head teacher at Öldutúnsskóli and took over as head teacher at the same school in 2013.  

Valdimar was born on 10 September 1978, married to Sigurborg Geirdal, a primary school teacher, and has one son, Víði Jökul, two stepdaughters, Lilja Rut and Elísa Rún, and two grandchildren. Valdimar was born in Ísafjörður and grew up in Bolungarvík until the age of 16. Valdimar then moved north to Akureyri, where he completed both his sixth-form and university education.