The Embassy of Iceland in Berlin

Auðunn Atlason

H.E. Auðunn Atlason was born on February 4, 1971, in Reykjavik, Iceland. He is married and has four children. Since September 4, 2024, Ambassador Atlason has been serving as the Ambassador of Iceland to the Federal Republic of Germany.

He studied Political Science and Government at Freie Universität Berlin, where he obtained his Diplom in 1996.

Ambassador Atlason is a seasoned career diplomat who has served in the Icelandic Foreign Service since 1999. Over the past two decades, he has worked on a wide range of issues including international security, European affairs, trade, human rights, and defence policy, holding various bilateral and multilateral posts around the world.

He began his diplomatic career as First Secretary in the Directorate for Administration at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) and has since held key roles including Director of the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit (2001), Counselor at the Embassy of Iceland in Washington D.C. (2002), and Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi (2006).

From 2009 onwards, he served as European Policy Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Acting Director of External Trade, and Director of the Department for Information. In 2013, he was appointed Permanent Representative of Iceland to the OSCE in Vienna, and concurrently Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Between 2020 and 2024, he served as Ambassador to Finland and non-resident Ambassador to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. He also held the position of Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iceland and later worked as Director for External Trade at the MFA.

He is fluent in Icelandic, English, and German, and speaks Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian at an intermediate level. Educated in Berlin during the post-Cold War period, Ambassador Atlason brings with him deep regional knowledge and a long-standing commitment to transatlantic and Nordic cooperation.

The Embassy of Iceland in Germany started its work in 1952, right after the establishment of diplomatic relations between both countries. The Embassy in Berlin is also accredited to Croatia, Montenegro, Poland and Serbia and works with the assistance of 15 Icelandic honorary consulates, whereas 10 only exist in Germany. The Embassy´s duties are based on the political, economic and cultural exchange between Iceland and the other countries.