Norwegian Nobel Committee

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Nobel Institute in Oslo
Location Oslo City Hall

The Norwegian Nobel Committee ( Norwegian Den Norske Nobel Committee ) is the body responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize . According to Alfred Nobel's will, the committee consists of five members who are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament in Storting according to its political composition.

The committee elects the chairman and his deputy from among its ranks. The director of the Nobel Institute provides the secretary of the committee. Nobel had not specifically decreed that only Norwegians should become members - the Norwegian Parliament did not end the Swedish-Norwegian personal union until June 1905 - in fact, the commission did not see any foreigners in its ranks.

The term of office of the members is six years, whereby the terms of office end offset so that the Storting appoints two or three members every three years. At the same time, three substitute members are appointed until the next election, i.e. for three years. Members can be re-elected.

The committee decides independently and with a majority, its members are not subject to any external regulations, meetings are not minuted; even in the case of disputed decisions, the members are not obliged to justify themselves. After the award ceremony for Barack Obama, however, an indiscretion said that the chairman and vice-chairman had struggled to convince the other members to elect the US president.

Current composition

  • Berit Reiss-Andersen (* 1954), chairman of the committee (since 2017). She is a lawyer, former State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in the government of Thorbjørn Jagland . Reiss-Andersen has been a member since 2012, her current term of office ends in 2023.
  • Henrik Syse (* 1966), vice chairman of the committee. Syse is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He has been a member of the committee since 2015 and his term of office ends in 2020.
  • Thorbjørn Jagland (born 1950). Jagland was Prime Minister of Norway from 1996 to 1997, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001, President of Parliament from 2005 to 2009 and has been Secretary General of the Council of Europe since 2009 . From 1992 to 2002 he was also chairman of the social democratic party ( Arbeiderpartiet ). He has been a member since 2009 and chaired the committee from 2009 to 2015. His term of office ends in 2020.
  • Anne Enger (* 1949). Enger is a former minister and was chairwoman of the Senterpartiet . She has been a member of the late Kaci Kullmann Five since 2018, initially for the remaining term of office until 2020 .
  • Asle Toje (* 1975). Toje is a political scientist specializing in foreign policy and was Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He has been a member of the committee since 2018 and his term of office ends in 2023.

The committee's secretary has been Olav Njølstad (* 1957), historian , since 2015 .

Are substitute members for the period 2018 to 2020

  1. Kristin Clemet (* 1957), former minister
  2. Inger Skjelsbæk (* 1969), peace researcher
  3. Sofie Høgestøl (* 1986), lawyer and research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Innstilling from valgkomiteen om valg av medlemmer og varamedlemmer til Nobelkomiteen. Innst. 72 S - 2017–2018. Stortinget, 2017, accessed October 4, 2018 (Norwegian).