A novel prize winner in 2001

Hi readers!

Today I want to write about one person called Kofi Annan. Maybe some of you know him but some others no. I think it’s interesting to write about this, because although you know him, probably here, you will read information you didn’t know.

Kofi Annan was born into an aristocratic family in Ghana on April 8, 1938. Thanks to the privileged situation of his family, he was able to study economics in the Kumasi College of Science and Technology and extended his studies in the United States and Switzerland, obtaining diverse postgrades and masters in economy.

In 1962 he joined the World Health Organization, a UN agency. But between 1974 and 1976, he worked as Director of Tourism for his own country.

He then returned to his work at the United Nations as Assistant Secretary-General in three different periods: as Human Resources and Security Coordinator from 1987 to 1990, Controller of the Planning and Finance Program from 1990 to 1991 and as Coordinator of Operations the United Nations Peace Forces between March 1993 and February 1994.

Annan was selected Assistant Secretary-General in October 1995 and was sent as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Yugoslavia, returning to the UN headquarters in New York in April 1996.

Together with the same UN received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his work for a better organized and more peaceful world.

In 2012 he was awarded the Confucius Peace Prize for "his enormous contribution to reforming the United Nations and as a special envoy of the UN and the Arab League in Syria".

I have chosen this person because I think it’s interesting the things that has he done and he has worked hard to get it.