Freyja Thorarinsdottir created GEMMAQ in 2015 as a graduate student at Columbia University.
The GEMMAQ project received a highly competitive grant from the Icelandic Technology Development Fund in 2019, and was awarded grants from the Ministry of Welfare in Iceland in 2018 and 2017. GEMMAQ rates companies in global markets based on how gender balanced their leadership is and is building a corporate gender equality and diversity rating and indexing system; a gender-lens for investors.
Before launching GEMMAQ, Freyja built a career in financial services; she was a director and team leader at the Central Bank of Iceland (The Federal Reserve) and participated in a financial advisor program with Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, Freyja was a capital markets and restructuring lawyer – passionate about improving the gender balance in senior leadership in her home country, Iceland. Now on a professional mission to help global markets empower women through capital & investments by leveraging technology and visualizing the delegation of power – the real impact women have on the market economy.
Freyja received a Master in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University, Law degrees (Master and Bachelor of Law) from Reykjavik University – where she was awarded the Dean’s List high-scholarship; and a BA in Political Science from University of Iceland – spending one year as a Nordic Scholar at Copenhagen University in Denmark.
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