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Biography
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations.
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
2016as Self
2016as Self
How to Become a Tyrant
2021as Self (archive footage)
2021as Self (archive footage)
Jaha's Promise
2017as Self
2017as Self
The Final Year
2017as Self (archive footage)
2017as Self (archive footage)
On Her Shoulders
2018as Self
2018as Self
The Daily Show
1996as Self
1996as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Self
2015as Self
Population Boom
2013as Self
2013as Self
The Quiet Diplomat
2024as Self
2024as Self