Kristján Kristjánsson received his PhD in moral philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has taught at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and at the University of Iceland as Professor of Philosophy of Education. Kristjánsson has recently been appointed Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the University of Birmingham and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, University of Konstanz, St. Edmund’s College (Cambridge University) and Institute of Education (University of London). Kristjánsson has written six books in English (three published by C.U.P.) and three in Icelandic.

He has published numerous articles on topics in moral philosophy, moral psychology, emotion theory and moral education in international journals in philosophy, psychology and education. He is a member of the International Society for Research on Emotions and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Moral Education. In 2011 he was awarded the Ása Guðmundsdóttir Wright Award, the most prestigious scholarly award given in Iceland across the Sciences and Humanities.