His family then moved to the nearby town of Chungju, where he grew up. 2.3 2017 presidential candidacy speculationīan was born on 13 June 1944 in the small farming village of Haengchi, Wonnam Township ( -myeon), in Eumseong County (Insei), North Chungcheong Province in what was then Japanese Korea.2.2.5 Criticism as UN secretary-general.2.2.3 Campaign for second term as secretary-general: 2011.2.2.1 Campaign for secretary-general: 2007.He became the first major international diplomat to throw his weight behind the Green New Deal, a nascent effort by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the United States to zero out planet-warming emissions and end poverty over the next decade. Ban currently serves as co-chair for the Global Center on Adaptation, which is taking forward the commission's work through its programs. The commission's mandate to accelerate adaptation by elevating the political visibility of adaptation and focusing on concrete solutions came to an end following its Year of Action in 2020, with its work showcased at the Climate Adaptation Summit hosted by the Netherlands on 25 January 2021. On 16 October 2018, the Global Commission on Adaptation was launched with Ban as co-chair, together with Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva. Since Ban's election as the President and Chair, GGGI's list of Members has expanded from 27 to 43 Member Countries and Regional Integration Organizations.
On February 20, 2018, Ban was unanimously elected as the President of the Assembly and Chair of the Council by the Members of the Assembly and Council, respectively, the two governance organs of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. He also currently serves as the Distinguished Chair Professor at Yonsei University's Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment.
Also in 2017, Ban co-founded the nonprofit Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens. On 14 September 2017, Ban was elected chair of the International Olympic Committee's Ethics Commission. He was widely considered to be a potential candidate for the 2017 South Korean presidential election, before announcing, on 1 February, that he would not be running. Īntónio Guterres was appointed by the General Assembly on 13 October 2016 to be the successor of Ban Ki-moon as he exited on 31 December 2016. In 2016, Foreign Policy named Ban one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for his achievement of helping the Paris Agreement to be ratified and enforced less than a year after it was adopted. In 2014, he was named the third most powerful South Korean after Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong. īan was named the world's 32nd most powerful person by the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013, the highest among South Koreans. Bush, and on the Darfur conflict, where he helped persuade Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan. Diplomatically, Ban has taken particularly strong views on global warming, pressing the issue repeatedly with U.S. As secretary-general, he was responsible for several major reforms on peacekeeping and UN employment practices around the world. On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan.
On 13 October 2006, he was elected to be the eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly. As foreign minister of South Korea, 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. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office. In February 2006, he began to campaign for the office of secretary-general. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India.īan was the foreign minister of South Korea between 20. Prior becoming the secretary-general, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon ( Korean: 반기문 Hanja: 潘基文 Korean pronunciation: born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 20.