Kaci Kullmann Five

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Kaci Kullmann Five
at a press conference ahead of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

Karin Cecilie "Kaci" Kullmann Five (born April 13, 1951 in Oslo ; † February 19, 2017 ) was a Norwegian politician of the conservative Høyre party . She was a Storting MP from 1981 to 1997 and Minister of Commerce from October 1989 to November 1990. From 2003 she was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and from 2015 its chairman.

Life

Kaci Five was born as the daughter of the dentist Kjell Kullmann (1925–1996) and the dental hygienist Anne-Lise Heiberg. She studied law, French and political science at the University of Oslo and initially worked for the Norwegian employers' association. She was married to the publisher Carsten O. Five .

Political career

Five sat in the local parliament of Bærum from 1975 to 1981 . From 1977 to 1979 she was the chairwoman of the youth organization Unge Høyre . In the 1981 parliamentary elections , she entered the Norwegian national parliament in Storting for the first time . There she represented the constituency of Akershus and she was initially a member of the finance committee. After the 1985 election, she moved to the Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Committee, where she remained after her re-elections in 1989 and 1993 . In the period from October 1981 to September 1989 and again from November 1990 to September 1996 she was part of the parliamentary committee of the Høyre group. Five served between October 1985 and September 1989 and again between November 1990 and May 1991 as deputy parliamentary group leader.

On October 16, 1989, she was appointed Minister of Commerce, a ministerial post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , of the Syse government. Five held this office until the end of the reign on November 3, 1990. From 1982 to 1988 she was also deputy chairman of her party. In 1991 she succeeded Jan P. Syse as chairwoman of Høyre, which she remained until 1994.

Return to business

After leaving Storting in 1997, she became managing director of Aker RGI (until 2002) and board member of Norway's largest oil company, Statoil (2002–2007). In 2002 she founded her own consulting company. Since 2003 she was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and thus involved in the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize winners . After Henrik Syse , the son of Jan P. Syse, was elected to the Nobel Committee in 2015, there was a majority within the five-member committee, which elected Kullmann Five as the new chairman in place of the Social Democrat Thorbjørn Jagland . Since Jagland had not resigned, it was a one-off event after 115 years.

Back in December 2016, Five, who had cancer, left the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to her representative. On February 20, 2017, the Nobel Committee announced that Kaci Kullmann Five died of breast cancer on February 19, 2017 at the age of 65 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stein Østbø, Oda Marie Midbøe, Lars Joakim Skarvøy, Hilde Sandvær: Kaci Kullmann Five er død. In: Verdens Gang . Schibsted Forlag , February 20, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Death of Kaci Kullmann Five: Norwegian Nobel Committee loses leadership. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . NZZ Group, February 20, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  3. ^ Henrik Pryser Libell: Kaci Kullmann Five, Head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Dies at 65. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, February 21, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kullmann Five, Kaci
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kullmann, Karin Cecilie (maiden name); Kullmann Five, Karin Cecilie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian politician (Høyre), member of the Storting
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2017