page_title: Norwegian Nobel Committee
section_title: Secretariat
hierarchical_section_title: Norwegian Nobel Committee / Secretariat
caption_attribution_description: The Norwegian Nobel institute, Oslo, Norway
context_page_description: The Norwegian Nobel Committee selects the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize each year on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, based on instructions of Nobel's will.
  Five members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. In his will, Alfred Nobel tasked the parliament of Norway with selecting the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time, Norway and Sweden were in a loose personal union. Despite its members being appointed by Parliament, the committee is a private body tasked with awarding a private prize. In recent decades, most committee members were retired politicians.
  The committee is assisted by its secretariat, Norwegian Nobel Institute. The committee holds their meetings in the institute's building, where the winner is also announced. Since 1990, however, the award ceremony takes place in Oslo City Hall.
context_section_description: The committee is assisted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, its secretariat. The leader of the institute holds the title secretary. The secretary is not a member of the committee, but is an employee of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
  List of secretaries
  1901–1909: Christian Lous Lange
  1910–1945: Ragnvald Moe
  1946–1973: August Schou
  1974–1977: Tim Greve
  1978–1989: Jakob Sverdrup
  1990–2015: Geir Lundestad
  2015–present: Olav Njølstad
caption: The Norwegian Nobel Institute, where the committee holds its meetings
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