Education: Ph.D. in Operations Rese­arch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008. B.Sc. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineer­ing, University of Iceland, 2001.

Current Position: Associate Professor, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Professi­onal Experience: Associate Professor at the R.H. Smith School of Business since 2021, having joined as a Lect­urer in 2012. Independent consultant since 2006. Visiting Lect­urer at Stan­ford Graduate School of Business (2008–2010). Specialist in the Foreign Exchange Surveill­ance unit at the Central Bank of Iceland (2011). Founder of PayAna­lytics ehf., and Chair of its Board from 2018 to 2021.

Board Members­hips: Chair of the Board, Albor ehf. Chair of the Board, Jafn­ræði ehf.

Independence: Margrét is consi­d­ered independent of the comp­any.