Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson (1978) is educated in sociology at the FNV College in Sauðárkrókur and in political history at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Hjörtur is a founding member and director of Heimssýn, the Icelandic No movement (founded in 2002), which opposes membership of the European Union. He has been a boardmember of the organisation since 2004. He was a boardmember of TEAM, the European alliance of EU-critical movements, on behalf of Heimssýn 2005-2006. A substitute member since 2006. Furthermore Hjörtur has been editor of the website Heimssyn.is since 2003 and the blogsite Heimssýn.blog.is since 2006.
Hjörtur is also director of the conservative free-market think tank Veritas and a fellow of the Copenhagen Institute. Hjörtur is a member of the Icelandic Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn - conservative/libertarian) and served as chairman of the Foreign Committee of the National Youth Organisation of the Independence Party (Samband ungra sjálfstæðismanna) at its national congress in 2005.
Hjörtur was co-editor of the website Íhald.is 2005-2006 ("íhald" in Icelandic means conservatism). His personal blogsite is called "Hægrisveiflan" which litterally means the Swing to the Right. He is also the author of many articles and essays published in a number of mainly Icelandic but also foreign newspapers and journals on politics and history since 1998.