Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Norwegian Nobel Committee ( Den Norske Norwegian Nobelkomite ) is the body responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee is in accordance with the testament of Alfred Nobel of five members, which determines the Norwegian Storting parliament according to its political composition.

The Committee itself chooses from among its members the Chairman and Deputy Chairman. The director of the Nobel Institute is the secretary of the Committee. Nobel had not specifically decreed that only members should be Norwegian - The Norwegian Parliament ended the Swedish - Norwegian personal union in June 1905 - in fact, the Commission was so far no foreigners in their ranks. The Storting elects the five members and three alternates for a six -year period with the possibility of re-election.

The committee will act independently and mostly, his relatives are not subject to external regulations, sessions are not logged; the members of which are forced to justify even in the contested decisions. After the award ceremony of Barack Obama an indiscretion said, however, Chairman and Deputy Chairman were the other members with difficulty convinced the election of the U.S. president.

Current composition

  • Thorbjørn Jagland ( born 1950 ), Chairman. Jagland was 1996-1997 Norwegian Prime Minister, 2000-2001 Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2005-2009 President of the Parliament. From 1992 to 2002 he was also Chairman of the Social Democratic Party ( Arbeiderpartiet ). He held office as a committee chairman is expected by the end of 2014.
  • Karin Cecilie ( Kaci ) Kullmann Five ( born 1951 ), Vice- Chairman. Kullmann Five is an independent consultant for public relations and public affairs. She was a member of the Storting 1981-1997. As Minister for Trade, shipping and European cooperation she worked from 1989 until 1990. From 1991 to 1994 she was chairman of the Conservative Party. Since 2003 she is member of the Nobel Committee.
  • Inger- Marie Ytterhorn (* 1941). Ytterhorn sitting in the Presidium of the senior citizens' organization FpS the Progress Party ( FrP ) and was a member of the Storting 1989-1993 It is a member of the Nobel Committee since 2000 and officiated expected by the end 2017.Vorlage. Tomorrow / in 3 years
  • Ågot Valle ( * 1945). Valle from 1997 to 2009 Member of the Storting and there President of Odelsting (2001 to 2005). Then they took the Sosialistisk Venstreparti the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament. Valle was first elected to the Committee for a period from 2009 to the end of 2014, but due to illness represented by Gunnar Stålsett.
  • Berit Reiss -Andersen (born 1954 ), lawyer, former State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice in the government of Thorbjørn Jagland, has acted initially until the end 2017.Vorlage: Future / in 3 years

Substitute members

Secretary: Geir LUNDESTAD (* 1945) is a historian. The post of Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Committee, he has held since 1990.

Personalunion Labour Party (Norway) Kaci Kullmann Five Inger-Marie Ytterhorn Socialist Left Party (Norway) Berit Reiss-Andersen
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