Ban Ki-Moon
| Ban Ki-moon | |
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| 반기문 | |
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| 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations | |
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In office 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2016 |
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| Deputy |
Asha-Rose Migiro Jan Eliasson |
| Preceded by | Kofi Annan |
| Succeeded by | António Guterres |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
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In office 17 January 2004 – 1 December 2006 |
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| President | Roh Moo-hyun |
| Prime Minister |
Lee Hae-chan Han Myeong-sook |
| Preceded by | Yoon Young-kwan |
| Succeeded by | Song Min-soon |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 June 1944 Injō, Japanese Korea (now Eumseong, South Korea) |
| Spouse(s) | Yoo Soon-taek |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
Seoul National University (BA) Harvard University (MPA) |
| Ban Ki-moon | |
| Hangul | |
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| Revised Romanization | Ban Gimun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pan Kimun |
| Korean pronunciation: [panɡimun] | |
| 2007 Secretary-General candidates | ||
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| Name | Position | |
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Ban Ki-moon | South Korean foreign minister |
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Shashi Tharoor |
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for public information; from India |
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Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | President of Latvia |
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Ashraf Ghani | Chancellor of Kabul University, Afghanistan |
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Surakiart Sathirathai | Deputy prime minister of Thailand |
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Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad | Jordan's ambassador to the United Nations |
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Jayantha Dhanapala | Former Under-Secretary-General for disarmament; from Sri Lanka |
Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; Hanja: 潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India.
Ban was the foreign minister of South Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006 he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office. As foreign minister of South Korea, however, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that turned him into the campaign's front runner.
On 13 October 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly. On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan. As Secretary-General, he was responsible for several major reforms on peacekeeping and UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban has taken particularly strong views on global warming, pressing the issue repeatedly with U.S. President George W. Bush, and on the Darfur conflict, where he helped persuade Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan.
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