Kofi Annan and the United Nations

Awarded for

Work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Shared with: United Nations

The story behind the prize

Annan was the first Secretary-General to rise from the UN's own staff. He launched the Millennium Development Goals, promoted the 'responsibility to protect' and helped set up the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The prize, in the Nobel Prize's centenary year, was shared with the UN itself.

About

Ghanaian diplomat who was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006).

Exam facts

• First UN Secretary-General from sub-Saharan Africa