Embassy Information

The Embassy of Iceland in Vienna serves as a Permanent Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Preparatory Commission to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation, all of which are located in Vienna.

The Embassy is in addition accredited as a bilateral embassy to Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia.

You can locate us in Vienna's 1st district on Naglergasse 2/8. The nearest metro stations are Herrengasse (U3) and Stephansplatz (U1 and U3).

Embassy of Iceland in Vienna

Address:

Naglergasse 2/3/8
1010 Wien

Phone: +43 1 533 2771

Email: vienna@mfa.is

Opening hours: Open all week days from 09:00 - 16:00

Name Job title Email
Antoine Buffin de Chosal Adviser antoine.buffin@utn.is
Helga Hauksdóttir Ambassador and Permanent Representative helga.hauksdottir@utn.is
María Kjartansdóttir Manager maria.kjartansdottir@utn.is

Ambassador

Ms. Helga Hauksdóttir

EDUCATION 
1988 – 1994 
University of Iceland, Faculty of Law, Reykjavík, Iceland Cand. Jur.
July 2008 
Rhodes Academy on Oceans Law and Policy, Course on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
2011-2013 
Alliance Francaise, Diplôme d´Études en Langue Française DELF A2 (completed in May 2012) DELF B1 (completed in December 2013)
2015 
Starfsmennt (The Educational Training Center for Public Employees) Course on Icelandic Standards (IST) for equal pay

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 
1994 - 1998  
Office of the District Commissioner in the Vestman Islands, Iceland 
• Deputy from 19 July 1994 – 30 April 1998 
• Acting District Commissioner from 1 May – 30 June 1998 1 July 1998 – to date Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Reykjavík 
• First Secretary, Defence Department (legal adviser), 1998-2001 
• First Secretary, Office of the Legal Adviser, 2001-2002 
• Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations, New York, 2002-2005 (portfolio included 2nd, 3rd and 6th committees, oceans and the law of the sea) 
• Counsellor, Embassy of Iceland, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005-2007 
• Counsellor, Department for International Affairs, MFA, Reykjavík, Iceland, from 1 August 2007 – 14 September 2009 (portfolio included coordination of UN issues, climate change, oceans and fisheries, and legal questions, mostly in regard to domestic law) 
• Director, Human Resources, MFA, Reykjavík, Iceland, since 15 September 2009-31 July 2016 
• Appointed Ambassador as of 1 January 2016 
• Director General, Directorate for Legal and Executive Affairs, 1 August 2016-31 July 2019 
• President of the 27th Meeting of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 201718 
• Ambassador, Embassy of Iceland, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 August 2019 (also accredited to Australia and Turkey, accredited to Romania and Bulgaria from August 2019-december 2022) 
• Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy and Permanent Mission of Iceland, Vienna, Austria, 1 August 2023

LANGUAGES 
Icelandic – maternal language 
English – fluent Swedish – fluent 
Danish – fluent 
German – intermediate 
French – basic knowledge

OTHER  
2013 – 2018 
Chairman for and member of advisory boards for appointments of Directors General in Ministries of the Government of Iceland. 
2023  
Awarded Order of the Dannebrog by H.M. The Queen of Denmark

Vienna, Austria