Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir

Kristín Vala is a member of Academia Europaea (since 2012), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Icelandic Academy of Science. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, distinguished fellow of the Schumacher Institute, and a member of and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She is a member of the sustainability think tanks the Balaton Group and the Club of Rome.

Kristín Vala was on the faculty of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol for 20 years, starting as researcher and becoming professor first of Environmental Geochemistry and then Environmental Sustainability. In 2008 she joined the University of Iceland as Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and in 2012 the Faculty of Earth Sciences as Professor.

Kristín Vala was a member of the UN Environment Program Depleted Uranium Scientific Assessment Teams, Kosovo (2000) and Bosnia Herzegovina (2002). She was a member of the International Expert Working Group of the Government of Bhutan on the New Development Paradigm (2013) and represented Academia Europaea in the European Academies Scientific Advisory Council (EASAC) working group on the Circular Economy (2016).

Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir (born 1954) is an Icelandic Earth and sustainability scientist and activist who is a professor of Earth Sciences at the Faculty of- and Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. She was the first woman to be a full professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK and at the same time the first woman to become a full professor in the Science Faculty there. She was also the first woman to serve as Dean of a School at the University of Iceland.