List of awards and honours received by Kofi Annan

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The following is a list of honours and awards received by Kofi Annan .

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Honours

1999: Honorary Silver Medal of Jan Masaryk [1]
1999: Ceremonial first pitch, Game 3 of the World Series
2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana [2]
2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland [3]
2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania [4]
2002: Title of Busumuru, Honour of the Asante Empire [5]
2002: Knight Commander of the Most Courteous Order of Lesotho [6]
2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal) [7]
2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion [8]
2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria [ citation needed ]
2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK) [9]
2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany [10]
2013: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour [11]

Awards

2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement [12]
2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations [13]
2002: Profiles in Courage Award. [14]
2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service. [15]
2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [16]
2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen [17]
2004: Freedom medal [18]
2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, All

Belgium[ citation needed ]

2006: IPS International Achievement Award. [19] [20]
2006: Olof Palme Prize [21]
2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum [ citation needed ]
2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau[ citation needed ]
2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice [22]
2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe [23]
2008: Harvard University Honors Prize[ citation needed ]
2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Award [24]
2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize [25]
2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest. [26]
2011: Gothenburg Award [27]
2012: Confucius Peace Prize [28]

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