ANNAN, KOFI

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06813859
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2020
• Case Number: F-2018-02369
• Publication Date: August 23, 2002

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Kofi Atta ANNAN
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(Phonetic: AN-en)
Secretary General, UN (since 1997)
Addressed as: Mr. Secretary General
LP 02-105546
23 August 2002
GHANA
Background: Worked at the UN for nearly 40 years, including as comptroller (1990-92), director
of peacekeeping operations (1993-96) ... unanimously reelected to second five-year term as
Secretary General
through 2006.
Languages: Speaks English, French, and several African languages.
Personal Notes: Born 8 April 1938 near Kumasi, Ghana . . . studied at Macalester College in
Minnesota (1959-61), the International Institute of Higher Studies in Switzerland (1961-62), and the
Sloan School of Management at MIT (1971-72) ... received Nobel Peace Prize (2001) ... married
Nane Lagergren (a Swedish national who is the niece of Raoul Wallenberg) in 1984 after a divorce
from his first wife . . . the couple has three adult children from previous marriages.
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