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Biography
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman 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.
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Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2013
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour · 2013
- Confucius Peace Prize · 2012
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic · 2010
- Medal of honor Dag Hammarskjold · 2009
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- Freedom Award · 2008
- honorary doctor of the University of Neuchâtel · 2008
- Bruno Kreisky Award — Services to Human Rights · 2007
- Gold Olympic Order · 2007
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun · 2007
- North–South Prize · 2007
- Grand Cross of Honor — Services to the Republic of Austria · 2006
- Olof Palme Prize · 2006
- Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal · 2004
- honorary doctor of Harvard University · 2004
- honorary doctorate from Carleton University · 2004
- Honorary doctors of Ghent University · 2004
- Indira Gandhi Peace Prize · 2003
- Sakharov Prize · 2003
- honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University · 2002
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva · 2002
- honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala · 2002
- Profile in Courage Award · 2002
- Torstein Dale Memorial Prize · 2002
- Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin · 2001
- honorary doctorate from Brown University · 2001
- J. William Fulbright Prize · 2001
- Nobel Peace Prize · 2001
- Philadelphia Liberty Medal · 2001
- Kora Awards · 2000
- honorary doctor of Comenius University · 1999
- honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology · 1999
- honorary doctor of the Howard University · 1999
- honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne · 1998
- Annenberg Award — Excellence in Diplomacy
- Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
- Decoration of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria
- Dostyk Order of grade I
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- FIFA Order of Merit
- Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
- Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope
- Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty
- Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon
- honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa
- honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
- honorary doctorate from Princeton University
- honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
- Order of Good Hope
- Order of Isabella the Catholic
- Order of Liberty
- Order of Manas, 1st class
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Order of Mono
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
- Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
- Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo
- Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya
- Order of the Liberator General San Martín
- Order of the Pioneers of Liberia
- Order of the Star of Ghana
- Order of the Star of Romania
