Guðrún Pétursdóttir finished her Master degree in sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1990. Besides sociology she also studied intercultural education at the Institut für interkulturelle Erziehung at the same university and later finished the teacher’s qualification at the University of Iceland. For the last 25 years Guðrún has worked in different fields connected with migration issues and teachers training and has since 2003 run the Teachertraining centre InterCultural Iceland - ici.is/en She taught courses at the pedagogical department of the University of Iceland from 2003 - 2009. She has run Erasmus+ In-service training courses for teachers and educators since 2004, developed cooperative teaching methods and materials and she is the author of three books: Intercultural education (1999), Everyone can do something nobody can do everything; a practical handbook for teachers (2003) and Diverse Society – Diverse Classrooms (2018).