Kofi Annan

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Born: 1938-04-08

Died: 2018-08-18

From: Kumasi, Ghana

Gender: Male

Popularity: 0.1

Also Known As

Kofi Atta Annan

Biography

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela. Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters, including serving as the under-secretary-general for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001 and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007. As secretary-general, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy, worked to combat HIV/AIDS (especially in Africa) and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticised for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for his resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme, but was largely exonerated of personal corruption. After the end of his term as secretary-general, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria to help find a resolution to the Syrian civil war. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regards to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis. He died in 2018 and was given a state funeral. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kofi Annan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour

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Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Confucius Peace Prize

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Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

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Medal of honor Dag Hammarskjold

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honorary doctor of the University of Neuchâtel

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Freedom Award

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Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

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Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights

2007

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North–South Prize

2007

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Gold Olympic Order

2007

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Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

2006

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Olof Palme Prize

2006

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Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal

2004

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Honorary doctors of Ghent University

2004

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honorary doctor of Harvard University

2004

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honorary doctorate from Carleton University

2004

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Sakharov Prize

2003

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Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

2003

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honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala

2002

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Profile in Courage Award

2002

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Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva

2002

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honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University

2002

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Torstein Dale Memorial Prize

2002

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J. William Fulbright Prize

2001

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Philadelphia Liberty Medal

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Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin

2001

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Nobel Peace Prize

2001

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honorary doctorate from Brown University

2001

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Kora Awards

2000

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honorary doctor of the Howard University

1999

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honorary doctor of Comenius University

1999

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honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology

1999

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honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

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Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

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Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Order of the Star of Romania

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Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize

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Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

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Order of Liberty

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Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

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Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru

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Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

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Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

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honorary doctorate from Princeton University

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Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya

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Order of the Star of Ghana

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Dostyk Order of grade I

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Order of Good Hope

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Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

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honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame

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honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa

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Order of the Liberator General San Martín

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala

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FIFA Order of Merit

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Order of Mono

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Order of Isabella the Catholic

Acting11 titles

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Kofi Annan

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The Peacekeepers

The Corporation

Ghosts of Rwanda

Jane's Journey

The Diplomat

Soros

The Diplomat

Vivement dimanche

Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm

Atomic: History Of The A-Bomb

Huwelijk kroonprins Willem-Alexander en Máxima Zorreguieta