Heidar Gudjonsson is an economist and the managing director of Ursus, an investment company in Zürich, Switzerland. He is also the chairman of Icelands Centre for Social and Economic Research (RSE), an independent free-market think-tank. Previously, Gudjonsson was a managing partner of Novator, a private investment firm managing 7B in public and private equity based in London, England. He was also a trader at Íslandsbanki London, manager of a global macro hedge fund in New York City, and head of trading at Íslandsbanki Reykjavik. Gudjonsson helped develop Icelandic markets after capital controls were lifted in the mid-1990s.