Name :- Kofi Atta Annan

Date Of Birth :- 8th April 1938

Nationality :- Ghanaians

Country :- Ghana also Known as Golden Coast During British Rule

Place Of Birth :- Kumasi ,Golden Coast

Name of Sister :- Eufa Atta

On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

BASIC INFORMATION

From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s.

1957, the year Annan graduated from Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence from Britain and began using the name "Ghana".

In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana.

He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961.

EDUCATION

Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62.

he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management 1971–72 in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a Master of Science M.S. degree.

Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages.

In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer for the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations.

From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of Tourism in Ghana.

1980s, Annan returned to work for the UN, where he was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General in three consecutive positions: Human Resources, Management and Security Coordinator 1987–1990; Program Planning, Budget and Finance, and Controller 1990–1992; and Peacekeeping Operations March 1993 – December 1996.

On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security Council recommended Annan to the Secretary-General, he started his first term as Secretary-General on 1 January 1997.

CAREER INFORMATION

ACTIVITIES AS A SECRETARY GENERAL

In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal priority", Annan proposed a Global AIDS and Health Fund to stimulate the increased international spending needed to help developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis.

During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without the support of the United Nations.

Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed sharply on Iran's nuclear program.

Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim countries on women's rights and other topics.

Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the United States in a speech on 6 June 2006.

Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day.

Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the government of Sudan to accept a transfer of power from the African Union peacekeeping mission to a UN one.

Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested as a candidate to become the country's next President.

In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.

appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva

Annan serves as Chair of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders who work together on peace and human rights issues.

Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Ghana in 2008.

On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria.

In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian woman from a well-to-do family.

Several years later they had a daughter Ama and later a son Kojo. T

he couple separated in the late seventies.

In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergren - a Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and niece of Raoul Wallenberg.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

ACHIEVEMENTS 2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize.

2002: winner of the "Profiles in Courage Award“.

2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.