Kofi Annan

Biography

Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He co-received the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize and founded The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela. Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy and launched initiatives like the UN Global Compact, before going on to lead a UN commission investigating the Rohingya crisis and later founding the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007.