Alma Joensen is a member of ESU's Executive Committee, and is responsible for the coordination of ESU’s Social Affairs Committee and ESU’s Gender Equality Cross Committee.

Alma has been active in student politics for many years, starting at the national level in Iceland, and then got elected to ESU in 2007 as a member of ESU's Gender Equality Committee, where she was mainly responsible for the development and implementation of ESU's Gender Mainstreaming Strategy.

Alma is studying Political Science in the University of Iceland, and currently exchange student in Gender Research in the University of Copenhagen.