He graduated from the University of Iceland with a BA in political science, having also studied at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and at the Universidad del Salvador, Argentina. Asgeir holds an MSc in comparative politics (politics and markets) from the London School of Ecnomics. Asgeir was a consultant for the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva and sat on the board of directors of the Icelandic Student Loan fund. In 2015 Asgeir was nominated as Startup Journalist of the Year at the Nordic Startup Awards. Asgeir lives a nomadic lifestyle, regularly jumping from country to country, with his husband, dog and cat. They currently make London their base.