PRIO congratulates Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of The Nobel Institute. Harpviken has worked with PRIO since 1993. He served as Director of the Institute for eight years, from 2009-2017. He currently holds the position of Research Professor and also head’s PRIO’s Middle East Centre.
“Hearty congrats to PRIO’s own Kristian Berg Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of The Nobel Institute. We very much look forward to working closely with him in his new role,” said PRIO’s Director, Henrik Urdal.
Read more about the new appointment on The Nobel Institute website here.
The PRIO director has a tradition of offering an annual list for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee operates with a secrecy clause, and reveals neither the list of nominees nor the content of its reviews of and deliberations over candidates.
Harpviken and Urdal are fully committed to maintaining a watertight separation on all issues that have to do with the Nobel Peace Prize. “The Nobel Peace Prize is widely respected as the world’s most important prize, not least thanks to the committee’s ability to act independently and with integrity,” said Henrik Urdal.
