BIRTHDAY: June 13, 1944BIRTHPLACE: South KoreaNATIONALITY: South KoreaSPOUSE: Yoo Soon-taekCHILDREN: 3
Ban Ki-Moon South Korean diplomat who became the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2007. He also served as the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2004 to 2006.
On October 13, 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly. On January 1, 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan. Ban struggled in his first month to adjust to the culture of the United Nations, but quickly found his bearings and passed 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.Ban was named the world’s 32nd most powerful person by Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s Most Powerful People in 2013, the highest among Koreans.BEFORE FAME he met president John F. Kennedy after winning a high school essay contest that allowed him to visit the U.S.
He earned earned the nickname ‘the bureaucrat’ for his pragmatism and administrative skill.
He has three children with wife Yoo Soon-Taek; the couple married in 1971.
He was known for expressing the importance of global warming to President George W. Bush on numerous occasions.
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