She’s made history by being the first woman international president of the Lions Clubs International (LCI), and it’s easy to remember her name because it’s one of the most common names in her native Iceland.
Gudrun Bjort Yngvadottir was named after her mother’s sister who died just weeks before she was born in 1948. “She was very dear to my mother, so she decided to give me the same name as my aunt,” says Yngvadottir during our interview in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
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