The Nobel Peace Prize 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-12
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Kofi Atta Annan
Born: 1938-04-08 in Kumasi, Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Gender: male
Field: Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006
Biography
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.