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.
Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations diplomat who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1991 to 1993. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel on United Nations Peace Operations in 2000. Its highly influential report "Report of the Panel on United Nations Peacekeeping" is known as "The Brahimi Report".
Louis Michel is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2019,he was a Member of the European Parliament. Michel is a prominent member of the French-speaking liberal party,the Mouvement Réformateur. He is the father of Charles Michel,the previous Prime Minister of Belgium and current President of the European Council.
Joseph Gérard Maurice Baril,is a retired General officer in the Canadian Forces,a Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General &head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997,and Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 to 2001.
The Department of Peace Operations (DPO) is a department of the United Nations charged with the planning,preparation,management and direction of UN peacekeeping operations. Previously known as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO),it was created in March 1992,as part of a restructuring of the UN's peace and security apparatus. The DPO retains the core functions and responsibilities of its predecessor,with a greater emphasis on cohesion,integrating different resources and knowledge,and promoting human rights.
Hédi Annabi was a Tunisian diplomat and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General,Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). He was previously an Assistant-Secretary-General at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations,from 1997 to 2007.
Stéphane Dujarric de la Rivière is the Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. He was appointed to this position on 19 February 2014,by the previous secretary-general,Ban Ki-moon. Dujarric had previously served as Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2005 to 2006 and then Deputy Communications Director for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from 2006 to 2007.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah is a Mauritanian diplomat who was a senior United Nations official.
Jean-Michel Severino is a French banker with particular interest in sustainable development. He has held senior positions in the World Bank,and served for more than nine years as the CEO of France's government agency for international development,AFD. Since 2011 he has been CEO of an investment group,Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P),and a board member for several private companies.
Joseph Foumbi is a senior United Nations official working for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG was a British diplomat who served more than eleven years as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Ambroise Édouard Noumazalaye was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1966 to 1968,under President Alphonse Massamba-Débat. Later in life he served as Secretary-General of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) and was a supporter of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He served as President of the Senate from 2002 to 2007.
Alan Claude Doss is a British international civil servant who has spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations,working on peacekeeping,development and humanitarian assignments in Africa,Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Medal is a posthumous award given by the United Nations (UN) to military personnel,police,or civilians who lose their lives while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping operation. The medal is named after Dag Hammarskjöld,the second Secretary-General of the United Nations,who died in a plane crash in what is now Zambia in September 1961.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1170,adopted unanimously on 27 May 1998,after considering the situation across the African continent,the Council decided to establish an ad hoc Working Group to review the Secretary-General Kofi Annan's recommendations concerning the maintenance of international peace and security in Africa.
Ghassan Salamé is a Paris-based Lebanese academic. He served as the Lebanese Minister of Culture from 2000 to 2003. He was the Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and professor of International Relations at Sciences Po. Salaméserved as the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya from 2017 to 2020.
Michael Møller is president of the Diplomatic Forum of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation,principal advisor at Macro Advisory Partners and member of the boards of several foundations,including the Kofi Annan Foundation. He is Honorary President of the Association of Former International Civil Sevants for Development (Greycells). He is a Danish former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the 12th director-general of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). He was also the secretary-general of the Conference on Disarmament and the United Nations Secretary-General's personal representative to the conference. He was appointed to these roles by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in November 2013 and was reappointed by Secretary-General António Guterres in February 2017 for another year. Møller has over 40 years of experience as an international civil servant in the United Nations System,serving in different roles in New York,Iran,Mexico,Haiti and Geneva. Prior to his tenure as director-general,he was the executive director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.
Ahmad Fawzi is an Egyptian-born media spokesperson,who,for six months in July 2017,worked as Communication Adviser and Chief Spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2015–2016 he served as interim Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva.
A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1996 at the end of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's first term. Boutros-Ghali ran unopposed for a second term and received the support of 14 of the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. However,the United States vetoed his re-selection and eventually forced him to withdraw his candidacy.
The Kofi Annan University of Guinea is a private university in West Africa located in Nongo,Ratoma Commune,Republic of Guinea. It is the oldest private higher education institution in Guinea.
