Kofi Annan, the founding chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, is a Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and was the Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and
2006.
With the Foundation, Kofi Annan seeks to mobilise political will to
overcome threats to peace, development and human rights.
President George W. Bush, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, center, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, far right
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| President George W. Bush, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, center, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, far right |
He was the founder and chairman of the KofiAnnan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an
international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
He
was a great leader and reformer of united nation, he made huge contribution to
making the world peaceful. He was the first African to lead the United Nations,
whose work revitalising the organisation and putting human rights at the core
of its mission was recognised with Nobel Peace Prize in 2001
He
born in Kumasi, Ghana, South Africa, studied economics at Macalester College, international
relations from the Graduate institute Geneva and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World
Health Organization's Geneva office.
As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy;
worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched
the UN Global Compact. Annan died in Switzerland after
a short illness on 18 August 2018 at the age of 80.
Honours and awards
Honours
- Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana (2000)
- Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland (2000)
- Grand Cross
with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania (2000)
- Knight Commander of the Most Courteous Order of
Lesotho (2002)
- Grand Collar
of the Order of Liberty (Portugal) (2005)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the
Netherlands Lion (2006)
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash
for Services to the Republic of
- Austria (2007)
- Honorary
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
from Queen Elizabeth II (UK) (2007)
- Grand Cross
1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2008)
- Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour (2013)
Awards
- Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement (2000)
- Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi
- Annan and the United Nations (2001)
- Profiles in Courage Award. (2002)
- The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. (2002)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen (2003)
- Freedom medal (2004)
- International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, Belgium (20006)
- IPS International Achievement Award. (2006)
- Olof Palme Prize (2006)
- Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum (2007)
- People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau (2007)
- MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice (2007)
- North-South Prize of the Council of Europe (2007)
- Harvard University Honors Prize (2008)
- Gottlieb Duttweiler Award (2008)
- Peace of Westphalia Prize (2008)
- 2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest. (2008)
- Gothenburg Award (2011)
- Confucius Peace Prize (2012).
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