Dr. Eythor Ivar Jonsson

Dr. Eythor Ivar Jonsson Is the co-founder of Akademias, which provides learning development programs for organizations and professionals. Dr. Jonsson is an entrepreneur and an academic, affiliated with Copenhagen Business School for nearly two decades. He is the VP of Conferences for European Academy of Management.

Dr. Jonsson has created several projects around innovation, entrepreneurship and corporate governance. For example, he created the first accelerator in Iceland in 2008 and has since created number of accelerator programs in the Nordic countries. In 2006 Dr. Jonsson founded an advisory board program, the A-Board, in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School Full-time MBA program, which has created advisory boards for around 200 Nordic fast growing companies. He was the founder of the project “Exemplary companies in corporate governance”, which has for more than a decade been the pillar for good corporate governance for registered companies in Iceland.

Dr. Jonsson has founded or co-founded several start-ups and institutions in the Nordic countries and assisted hundreds of start-ups as a CEO of innovation centre, accelerator programs and investor conferences like Seed Forum. He has taught thousands of students entrepreneurship at seven different universities.     

Dr. Jonsson has written more than 700 articles for specialized journals and magazines about business and economics. He wrote the first book about entrepreneurship published in Iceland.