Lifetime Achievement
Dreamstore Awards Lifetime Achievement – Orri Vigfusson
This Award is separated from the others because it is an Award that is not relevant to a year, but to a life time. It is an Award to someone who has done what many people must have told him was impossible, or that the personal and public interests were too great to overcome.
This Lifetime Achievement Award is to a man who’s single-minded determination to succeed has done more for the conservation and promotion of the North Atlantic Salmon than any other individual or organization.
CV: Orri Vigfússon
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC POSITIONS
- Director of Íslandsbanki hf - Iceland leading financial actor, 1987-2004
- Director / Chairman, Icelandic Opera (1990s).
- Trustee Chairman, The Migratory Salmon Foundation UK.
- Director, Atlantic Salmon Reserve, Kola, Russia.
- Chairman, Laxárfélagid Salmon Club (Big Laxá í Aðaldal).
- Director & Secretary, Icelandic Angling Club Akureyri (Fljótaá).
- Chairman, Íslenskur Fiskur ehf.
- Man. Director, Kolmúli ehf.
- Chairman, Verktakar ehf.
- Chairman, Trésmiðjan ehf.
- Chairman and founder, North Atlantic Salmon Fund (International).
- Project Superviser ¬ Russia´s Kola rivers (Kharlovka, Rhynda and Litza).
- Director, Atlantic Salmon Federation (US).
- Director, North Atlantic Salmon Fund (US).
- Director of AIDSA, Association Internationale de Défense du Saumon Atlantique (France).
- Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust (Hampshire- Avon), Vice-President.
- Fly Fishers Club of London Honorary Life member.
- Anglers Club in New York Honorary Life member.
- Icelandic Angling Club ¬ London, Honorary President.
- NASF (UK), Vice President.
- Llandysul Angling Association in Wales, Honorary Life member.
- Federation of Irish Salmon and Sea Trout Anglers.
- Bishop Auckland District Angling Club, NE England, President.
- South West Rivers Association UK, Patron.
- NASF Northern Ireland, President.
Recognitions, Awards & Honorary Memberships 1992-date:
- Chuck Yeager Award: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, USA.
- Lee Wulff Conservation Award: Atlantic Salmon Federation, USA.
- HRH the Prince of Wales Conservation Award.
- Akademia Café Opera Award.
- Gold Award: The Reykjavík Angling Club, Iceland.
- Knight Order from HM The Queen of Denmark.
- Knight Order from the President of Iceland.
- VISA Cultural Award for Nature Conservation.
- Enviro-Capitalist Award: Political Economy Research Center, USA.
- Vice-Precident, Salmon and Trout Association, UK.
- Honorary Goodwill Salmon Ambassador for Denmark.
- 2003 Coldwater Conservation Award, North America.
- 2004 Theodor Gordon Flyfishers Ed Zern Salmon Award GF.
- 2004 Time Magazine European Hero.
- 2005 Ashoka Senior Fellowship Appointment.
- 2006 The Economist Leading Social Entrepreneurs List
- 2007 Goldman Environmental Award