Kofi Anan was a diplomat from Ghana.
Career at United Nations (UN):
- He joined the UN in 1962 and worked in several capacities at the UN Headquarters.
- He served as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between 1992 and 1996.
- He served as the 7th Secretary-General of UN from 1997 to 2006. By this he became the first UN Secretary-General to be elected from the UN staff itself.
- As a secretary general he launched the –
- United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS)
- Global AIDS and Health Fund,
- UN Global Compact and
- Millennium Development Goals.
- Nobel Peace Prize:
- He and the UN were the ‘co-recipients’ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
- He was awarded for his efforts towards reforming the UN bureaucracy and working towards combating HIV, especially in Africa.
Post UN:
- After the end of his term as UN Secretary-General, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 for promoting Global sustainable development and peace.
- In 2012, His memoir, "Interventions: A Life in War and Peace," was published.
- In 2012, he was appointed as the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to find a resolution to the Syrian conflict.
- In 2016, he was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis.
