2. 8 April 1938 - Now (age 74)
Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations.
From 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006.

3.  Born in 8th April 1938 in Kumasi,
Ghana with a twin sister.
 His parents are Mr. & Mrs. Henry
Reginald.
 His father is Henry Reginald Annan is a
local governor and had a great honour
there. And he always did his
performance as a chief.
 His religion is “Protestantism”.

4. Education
–1958: Degree in Economics, University of
Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
–1962: Graduate studies at the Institutes
of International Affaires, Geneva, Switzerland.
– 1972: Master degree of Science in
Management, MIT,USA.

5.  1961-1962: Annan started working as a
Budget Officer for the World Health
Organization (WHO), an agency of Geneva,
Switzerland.
 1974 - 1976: Director of Tourism, Ghana.
 1976 - 1996: Several positions in the UN
system.
 1996 – 2006: Secretary-General of the
United Nations.

6. Secretary - General of the United
Nations
Appointment: On 13 December 1996, the
United Nations Security Council
recommended Annan to replace the previous
Secretary-General, Dr. Boutros-Ghali of
Egypt. He started his first term as Secretary-
General on 1 January 1997.
He worked here till last of 2006.

7. Work at Syria
From 23 February until
31 August 2012, Annan
was the UN – Arab
League envoy to Syria,
to help find a resolution
to ongoing conflict
there.

8. Kofi Annan resigns as Syria envoy
• He said Syrian peace
mission impossible
because the lack of
international unity.
• There was international
disarray over the bloody
crisis in Syria. So Kofi
Annan announced that he
was resigning because of
the failure of what he
said had become a
"mission impossible". Annan quits as international envoy to Syria

9. Activities
• Millennium Goals (2000)
– Commitment of the world leaders to reduce extreme
poverty and to set out a series of time bound targets to
be reached by 2015.
• The Global Fund (2002)
– Fund raising agency to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria.
• The Global Compact (2000)
– Policy initiative for businesses to follow
principles.

10. UN Resolution 61/225: World
Diabetes Day
Kofi Annan witnessed the United Nations
General Assembly's passage of UN Resolution
61/225, to establish World Diabetes Day. The
Resolution was the second UN General
Assembly Resolution on a health-related issue
(the other being HIV/AIDS). Resolution 61/225
is the only Health-related UN Resolution to pass
by consensus. Sponsored by the Republic of
South Africa and Bangladesh, the Resolution
was passed on 20 December 2006.

11. Farewell addresses
• On 19 September 2006, Annan gave a farewell
address to world leaders gathered at the UN
headquarters in New York.
• On 11 December 2006, in his final speech as
Secretary-General, delivered at the Harry S. Truman
Presidential Library in Independence.
• He said that the United States must maintain its
commitment to human rights, "including in the
struggle against terrorism."

12. Personal life
• 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. The couple separated in the
late seventies. In 1984 Annan
remarried to Nane Lagergrenat - a
Swedish lawyer at the U.N.

13. Memoir
• On September 4, 2012, Annan published his
memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and
Peace, written with Nader Mousavizadeh,
ISBN 978-159420420-3. The book is
described as a personal biography of so-called
global statecraft.

14. Honors
• 2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana
• 2001: Grand Collar of the Star of Romania.
• 2005: Grand the Order of Liberty (Portugal).
• 2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands
Lion.
• 2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for
Services to the Republic of Austria.
• 2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St
Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II
(UK).
• 2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany.

15. • 2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of
Lifetime Achievement.
• 2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly
presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
• 2002: winner of the Profiles in Courage Award.
• 2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at
the University of St. Gallen.
• 2006: Inter Press Service, International Achievement Award
for Annan's lasting contributions to peace, security, and
development.
• 2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.
• 2008:Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize.

16. Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny
Foundation at the University of St. Gallen
(2003).

17. Definition of leader and
leadership
Leader: A leader is a person who can or do
influence people towards gaining the
organizational objectives and goals.
Leadership: It is simply the art of to
influence people towards the achievement
objectives. Leadership is the process of
influencing people towards the
achievements of organizational goals
(Naylor, 2004).

19. Sources of POWER
 Annan is holding a formal position as the
secretary General of the united nations. So he
has the Legitimate power.
 Though he is in a formal position he has the
ability to grant reward. So he has also the
Reward power.

20. Cont’d…
• Though he was in a formal position so he had the reward
power as well as the right to give threat or punishment. So he
also had the Coercive power.
• His speeches are often a call to action and eloquently delivered
to achieve moving the audience in such a way. An example of
the charismatic nature of Kofi Annan’s speeches is this extract
from his speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland
in 1999. The speech centres around globalization and how the
worlds corporate leaders can make a choice to operate in a
manner that takes into consideration the world at large.
• This speaching quality is his Expert power .

21. Cont’d…
• In April 2001, Annan work on HIV/AIDS and
proposed Global AIDS and Health Fund to
aware the world about it’s crisis. And awarded
“Nobel Peace Prize” On 10 December 2001
with United Nations jointly.
• He knew by name almost everyone in the UN
headquarters, regardless of position
• He acquired a big personal identity through
this prize. So it is his Referent Power.

22. The Managerial Grid
Concern for people
(9,9)
(1,9)
(5,5)
(1,1) (9,1)
Concern For Production

23. Managerial Grid
 By paying much attention to the personal
relationships with his subordinates, Annan
applied the country club management (9,1)
leadership style.
 From (9,1) he gone (5,5). Where he paid equal
attention on both people and production.
 Then he reached (9,9). And made him self
more successful and give maximum emphasis
on people and production.

24. Democratic Leadership
• Annan spent his first months as the UN Secretary
General visiting world leaders and stakeholders to
inspire them, share his vision of the UN to obtaining
feedback.
• His behavior towards his stuff was according to
theory X. That is motivational.
• He inspired them to achieve the organizational or
personal development.
• So his behavior leadership style is totally Democratic.

25. Transactional Leadership
• In promoting modernization, Annan applied
the transformational leadership style, which
shows that transformational leaders have
special capacity to motivate their staff towards
innovation. Modernization encouraged
research and development in the United
Nations, thereby challenging the intellectual
capacity of the employees.
• Here he choose Transactional Leadership.

26. Trait Theory (By born)
• Kofi Annan's father Henry Annan was one of the beneficiaries
of modern education in Ghana. He was also an elected
governor of there. As Kofi grew up, he observed his father
perform his duties as a chief. Henry Annan used to bring
together both parties , listen to their arguments, and provide
them opportunity to suggest possible solutions to resolve their
disputes. Henry was a respected man and prominent local
leaders frequently visited his household to seek advice from
him. Such family background helped Kofi gain wisdom from
an early age that he would use later in his life.
• So he has the leading quality from his childhood. That means
he is a by born leader. And it support the Trait Theory.

27. Contingency Theory (Situational)
• Contingency Theory, which seeks to explain
leadership effectiveness in terms of situational
moderator variables.
• The contingency theory is a leader-match
theory, which tries to match leaders to appropriate
situations.
• He had the capability to take decision in different
types of leadership style with motivational
inspiration. It means Kofi Annan’ s leadership
support Contingency Theory.

28. Criticism
• From 1993 to 1995. During this time, he was
the supervisor of about 70,000 military and
civilian personnel deployed in UN operations
around the world. It was during that period that
the world severely criticized him for his failure
to respond rapidly to stop the escalation of
genocide in Rwanda in 1994, which claimed
lives of about 800,000 Tutsis.

29. Summary
• There is a general understanding that
leadership is the key to the success of any
organization.
• The study indicated Annan‘s leadership style
had significant influence on bringing the peace
process to an advanced level.
• He has the quality of inspirational
motivation, intellectual stimulation, and
individual consideration.

30. It was said of Gandhi that he had eyes that
reflected the world’s sorrows. Annan’s seem to
hold the world’s hopes………
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31. Kofi Annan at a glance
Kofi Atta Annan ( born in Kumasi, Ghana on 8
April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served
as the seventh Secretary - General of the United
Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December
2006. Annan won Nobel Prize on PEACH for
Global AIDS and Health Fund in 2001 and the
United nation was also co- recipient of that
honor He developed a six-point plan for peace
in Syria at the time of civil war.

32. Q&A
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