Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson (born 19 June 1972) is an Icelandic politician who was the Mayor of ReykjavÃÂk from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2014 to 2024. He was the vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance from 2009 until 2013. He was first elected to the city council of ReykjavÃÂk in a 2002 election and became the mayor on 16 October 2007. Dagur is formally educated as a physician but also has a master's degree in Human Rights and International Law from the University of Lund in Sweden.
While studying at the University of Iceland, he was the chairman of the student council from 1994 to 1995 and managing director of the Icelandic Student Innovation Fund from 1995 to 1996. From 1995 to 1998, Dagur worked at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, Channel 1, making programs. He is the author of a 3-volume biography of former prime minister, SteingrÃÂmur Hermannsson, which he worked on from 1998 to 2000.
From 2000 to 2004, he worked at various divisions at LandspÃÂtali University Hospital. He worked as an assistant doctor in 2000. He worked as physician at ÃÂsafjörður district hospital in summer 2001 and then returned to LandspÃÂtali and worked at the Department of Microbiology in 2002. From 2003 to 2004, he was a doctor at the E.R. He held lectures on public health at the ReykjavÃÂk University in the years of 2005 to 2007.
Dagur was first elected to ReykjavÃÂk City Council in May 2002 as an Independent candidate within the four party coalition ReykjavÃÂkurlistinn. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Chairman of the City Planning Council.
Dagur became Mayor of ReykjavÃÂk in October 2007 but was suddenly ousted when one of his supporters in the ReykjavÃÂk City Council, ÃÂlafur F. Magnússon, changed sides and formed a new majority with the opposition party, becoming mayor himself.
From 2009 to 2013, he was Vice Chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance.
From 2010 to 2014, Dagur formed a majority with The Best Party with Jón Gnarr as mayor but Dagur became the chairman of the City Executive Council.
On 31 May 2014, the Social Democratic Alliance in ReykjavÃÂk, with Dagur as lead candidate, won the single largest number of votes for the ReykjavÃÂk City Council in the 2014 Icelandic municipal elections. Dagur became the mayor of ReykjavÃÂk on 16 June 2014.
Dagur grew up the ÃÂrbær district of ReykjavÃÂk. He is the son of Eggert Gunnarsson, a veterinarian, and Bergþóra Jónsdóttir, a biochemist. Dagur is married to Arna Dögg Einarsdóttir, a medical doctor. They have four children.