Biography
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade between 2004 and 2006. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations; he began to campaign for the office in February 2006. As the foreign minister of South Korea, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a manoeuvre that subsequently turned him into the campaign's front-runner.
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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctorate from Sorbonne University · 2026
- honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux · 2018
- Collar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit · 2016
- Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · 2016
- honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne · 2016
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- honorary doctorate from Columbia University · 2016
- Order of Friendship · 2016
- honorary doctor of Comenius University · 2015
- honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven · 2015
- honorary doctor of the University of Auckland · 2014
- Humanitarian of the Year · 2014
- Medal of Honor of the Congress of the Republic of Peru · 2014
- Tipperary International Peace Award · 2014
- Distinguished SNU Members · 2013
- Gold Olympic Order · 2012
- Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay · 2011
- Dostyk Order of grade I · 2010
- Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University · 2010
- James A. Van Fleet Award · 2004
- Grand Star of the Decoration — Services to the Republic of Austria · 2001
- Amir Amanullah Khan Award
- Decoration of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria
- Emblem of Unity
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- National Order of Burkina Faso
- National Order of Madagascar
- National Order of Merit
- National Order of the Ivory Coast
- Order of Civil Merit
- Order of Ismoili Somoni
- Order of José Matías Delgado
- Order of Liberty
- Order of Merit — Distinguished Services
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Order of Rio Branco
- Order of Saint Agatha
- Order of Saint-Charles
- Order of Sikatuna
- Order of the Liberator General San Martín
- Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Order of the Sun of Peru
- Order of Unity
Filmography9 titles
Before the Flood
How to Become a Tyrant
Jaha's Promise
The Final Year
On Her Shoulders
The Daily Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Population Boom
The Quiet Diplomat