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Who is Kofi Annan?

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaiandiplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006.

From 1994 to 1995 and again in 1996, he served as Under-Secretary-General. In 2000, he issued the "We the Peoples" report, which led to the Millennium Declaration and its eight Millennium Development Goals.

HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund

In 2001, Annan declared HIV/AIDS his "personal priority" and issued a "Call to Action" for combating the epidemic.

Mr Annan’s efforts to strengthen the Organisation’s management, coherence and accountability involved major investments in training and technology, the introduction of a new whistle-blower policy and financial disclosure requirements, and steps to improve co-ordination at country level.

In 2001, he and the United Nations were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He flew to Baghdad in 1998 to resolve an impasse on the access by UN inspectors to critical sites in Iraq. At Mr. Annan’s initiative, UN peacekeeping was strengthened in ways that enabled the United Nations to cope with a rapid rise in the number of operations and personnel.

In 1998, he helped to ease the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria. A complete list can be found here. He is married to Nane and between them they have three children and five grandchildren. During this period, UN peacekeeping operations expanded significantly, with over 70,000 military and civilian personnel deployed at their peak.

Secretary-General (1997-2006)

Reforms and Initiatives

Annan was elected as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1997.

His father was a prominent businessman and Annan attended secondary school at the elite private Mfantsipim School, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. He was a constant advocate for human rights, the rule of law, the Millennium Development Goals and Africa, and sought to bring the organisation closer to the global public by forging ties with civil society, the private sector and other partners.

In early 2008, he led the African Union’s Panel of Eminent African Personalities, which mediated a peaceful resolution to post-election violence in Kenya.

From February to August 2012, he was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, mandated to seek a resolution to the conflict there. It is was a joint venture of the Government of Myanmar and of the Kofi Annan Foundation.

In his last 2 years, under the helm of his Foundation, Kofi Annan launched projects to safeguard elections and democracy in the digital age, but also to promote youth leadership in the face of violent extremism, and to ensure that peace processes really produce lasting peace.

Lastly, he advocated for agriculture that serves the poorest and emphatically warned against the dangers of climate change. He chaired the African Progress Panel until the end of 2017, which advocated at the highest level for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. That same year, Annan played an important role in finding a solution to the violence that broke out in East Timor.

Also in 2006, he mediated a settlement of the dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the Bakassi peninsula. As Secretary-General, his priorities were to adapt the Organization for the Twenty-first Century through a comprehensive program of reform which included the following goals: to strengthen its work for peace and development, particularly in Africa; to advance human rights and the rule of law; to raise global awareness of the AIDS epidemic; and to bring the UN closer to the public by working more closely with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), parliamentarians, academic institutions, the private sector, and other partners.

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