2.  Name :- Kofi Atta Annan
 Date Of Birth :- 8th April 1938
 Nationality :- Ghanaians
 Country :- Ghana also Known as Golden Coast
During British Rule
 Place Of Birth :- Kumasi ,Golden Coast
 Name of Sister :- Eufa Atta
 On 4 September 2012, Annan published his memoir,
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

3.  From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite
Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in
Cape Coast founded in the 1870s.
 1957, the year Annan graduated from
Mfantsipim, the Gold Coast gained independence
from Britain and began using the name "Ghana".
 In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the
Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology of Ghana.
 He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him
to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester
College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in
1961.

4.  Annan then did a DEA degree in International
Relations at the Graduate Institute of International
Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62.
 he studied at the MIT Sloan School of
Management 1971–72 in the Sloan Fellows
program and earned a Master of Science M.S.
degree.
 Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some
Kru languages and other African languages.

5.  In 1962, Kofi Annan started working as a Budget Officer
for the World Health Organization, an agency of the
United Nations.
 From 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Director of
Tourism in Ghana.
 1980s, Annan returned to work for the UN, where he
was appointed as an Assistant Secretary-General in
three consecutive positions: Human
Resources, Management and Security Coordinator
1987–1990; Program Planning, Budget and
Finance, and Controller 1990–1992; and Peacekeeping
Operations March 1993 – December 1996.
 On 13 December 1996, the United Nations Security
Council recommended Annan to the SecretaryGeneral, he started his first term as Secretary-General
on 1 January 1997.

6.  In April 2001, Annan issued a five-point "Call to Action" to
address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Stating it was a "personal
priority", Annan proposed a Global AIDS and Health Fund to
stimulate the increased international spending needed to help
developing countries confront the HIV/AIDS crisis.
 During the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Annan called on
the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without
the support of the United Nations.
 Annan and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disagreed
sharply on Iran's nuclear program.

7.  Annan supported sending a UN peacekeeping
mission to Darfur, Sudan. He worked with the
government of Sudan to accept a transfer of
power from the African Union peacekeeping
mission to a UN one.
 Annan also worked with several Arab and Muslim
countries on women's rights and other topics.
 Kofi Annan supported his deputy Secretary-General
Mark Malloch Brown, who openly criticized the
United States in a speech on 6 June 2006.
 Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations General
Assembly's passage of UN Resolution 61/225, to
establish World Diabetes Day.

8.  Upon his return to Ghana, Annan was immediately suggested
as a candidate to become the country's next President.
 In 2007, Annan was named chairman of the prize committee
for the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African
Leadership, was chosen to lead the new formation of
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
 appointed president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in
Geneva
 Annan serves as Chair of The Elders, a group of independent
global leaders who work together on peace and human rights
issues.
 Kofi Annan was appointed the Chancellor of the University of
Ghana in 2008.
 On 23 February 2012, Annan was appointed as the UN-Arab
League envoy to Syria.

9.  In 1965 Kofi Annan married Titi Alakija, a Nigerian
woman from a well-to-do family.
 Several years later they had a daughter Ama and
later a son Kojo. T
 he couple separated in the late seventies.
 In 1984 Annan remarried to Nane Lagergren - a
Swedish lawyer at the U.N. and niece of Raoul
Wallenberg.

10.  2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize.
 2002: winner of the "Profiles in Courage Award“.
 2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.