in Aker RGI until 2001, and since 2002 remained active as an independent consultant. She was a member of the Board of Directors of several large companies and organisations, including Statoil, Norway's largest petroleum company, Scheiblers Legacy, SOS Kinderdorf Norway and Radio Channel P4. Nobel Prize roles Kaci Kullmann Five was elected by the Storting as a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, for the term 2000–03. In 2003, she was elected as one of the five regular members and was reelected up until her death in 2017. In March 2015, she was elected by the committee as its new chairperson, succeeding Thorbjørn Jagland, marking the first time in the history of the 1900 founded committee that the incumbent chairman was replaced without retiring deliberately. From 2009 until 2017, she was one of the seven regular board members of the Sweden-based Nobel Foundation, which has the overall responsibility for all the five Nobel Prizes. As a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, she was involved in the decisions to award the Nobel Peace Prize to, among others, Shirin Ebadi, Al Gore, Martti Ahtisaari, Barack Obama, Liu Xiaobo, Juan Manuel Santos, and the European Union. She praised Thorbjørn Jagland for his leadership of the Nobel committee and stated that she supported all the prizes awarded when Jagland was chairman. She harshly criticized the People's Republic of China over its treatment of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo; she demanded that the Chinese communist regime releases Liu Xiaobo and "stops persecuting his wife." Publications Erfaringer med etableringsloven. Cand.polit. dissertation in political science, University of Oslo, 1981. Det nye Europa, with Jan Petersen. Oslo: Conservative Party of Norway, 1990. Avslutningstale på Høyres landsmøte 1991. Oslo: Conservative Party of Norway, 1991. "Norges plass i europeisk samarbeid". In: Norsk militært tidsskrift, no. 12, 1992. References |- 1951 births 2017 deaths Chairpersons of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Members of the Storting Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway University of Oslo alumni Bærum politicians Women members of the Storting Leaders of the Conservative Party (Norway) 20th-century Norwegian politicians Deaths from cancer in Norway Deaths from breast cancer Women government ministers of Norway