Geir Lundestad was director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which awards the Nobel Peace Prize) 1990—2014. He has written two books in Norwegian about the Nobel Peace Prize, the first frank and open accounts about the Peace Prize written by a Nobel insider. Lundestad is one of Norway’s leading historians of international history. He has published numerous books in English with Oxford University Press and other international reputable publishers on the Cold War and on American-European relations since 1945.