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Kofi Atta Annan ( KOH-fee AN-an; 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 studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN 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 ongoing conflict there. 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.
Filmography
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self 21
Movies 19
TV Shows 2
AFR (2007)
Ghosts of Rwanda (2004)
The Corporation (2003)
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GenderMale
Birthday1938-04-08
Deathday2018-08-18 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceKumasi, Ghana
ReligionProtestantism
Height
RelationshipsTiti Alakija (1965-01-01 - 1983-01-01), Nane Annan (1984-01-01 - 2018-08-18)
ChildrenKojo Annan, Nina Cronstedt, Ama Annan
FatherHenry Reginald Annan
MotherRose Eshun
SiblingsKobina Annan, Efua Atta
CitizenshipsGhana
Awardshonorary doctor of the University of Notre Dame, honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame, Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty, honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University, Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa, honorary doctor of the University of Neuchâtel, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, Honorary doctors of Ghent University, Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class, Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, Order of Manas, 1st class, honorary doctor of the Howard University, honorary doctorate from Carleton University, honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, Honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology, Honorary doctorate from Brown University, honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala, Grand Cross of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria, Torstein Dale Memorial Prize, Dostyk Order of grade I, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Philadelphia Liberty Medal, Fulbright Prize, Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy, Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Indira Gandhi Peace Prize, Order of Mono, Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize, Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya, Order of Good Hope, Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Order of the Liberator General San Martín, Order of the Pioneers of Liberia, Order of the Netherlands Lion, Freedom Award, Order of the Star of Ghana, Olof Palme Prize, Confucius Peace Prize, Medal of honor Dag Hammarskjold, Kora Awards, Order of the Star of Romania, Order of Isabella the Catholic, Order of Liberty, Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, North–South Prize, FIFA Order of Merit, Nobel Peace Prize, Profile in Courage Award, Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Sakharov Prize, Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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