Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon 반기문 潘基文
Ban in Januar 2008, at a Warld Economic Forum meetin in Davos, Swisserland.
Secretary-General o the Unitit Naitions
In office 1 Januar 2007 – 31 December 2016
Depute	Asha-Rose Migiro Jan Eliasson
Precedit bi	Kofi Annan
Succeedit bi	António Guterres
Meenister o Foreign Affairs an Trade
In office 17 Januar 2004 – 1 December 2006
Preses	Roh Moo-hyun
Prime Meenister	Goh Kun Lee Hae-chan Han Duck-soo Han Myeong-sook
Precedit bi	Yoon Young-kwan
Succeedit bi	Song Min-soon
Personal details
Born	(1944-06-13) 13 Juin 1944 Eumseong Coonty, North Chungcheong Province, Japanese Korea (nou Eumseong Coonty, Sooth Korea)
Naitionality	Sooth Korean
Spoose(s)	Yoo Soon-taek
Bairns	3
Alma mater	Seoul Naitional Varsity (B.A.) Harvard Varsity (M.P.A.)
Signatur

Korean name
Hangul	반기문
Hanja	潘基文
Revised Romanisation	Ban Gimun
McCune–Reischauer	Pan Kimun
Korean pronunciation: [panɡimun]

This is a Korean name; the faimily name is Ban.

Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; Hanja: 潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is a Sooth Korean diplomat wha wis the aichth Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions, efter succeedin Kofi Annan in 2007, till 2016. Afore acomin Secretary-General, Ban wis a career diplomat in Sooth Korea's Meenistry o Foreign Affairs an in the Unitit Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduatit frae varsity, acceptin his first post in New Delhi, Indie. In the foreign meenistry, he established a reputation for modesty an competence.

Ban wis the foreign minister o Sooth Korea frae Januar 2004 tae November 2006. In Februar 2006, he began tae campaign for the office o Secretary-General. Ban wis initially considered tae be a lang shot for the office. As foreign meenister o South Korea, however, he wis able tae travel tae aw o the kintras that wur members o the Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil, a maneuver that turned him intae the front runner.

On 11 October 2006, he wis electit tae be the aichth Secretar-General bi the Unitit Naitions General Assembly an offeecially succeedit Annan on 1 Januar 2007. Ban haes led several major refairms regardin peacekeepin an UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban haes taken particularly strang views on Darfur, whaur he helped persuade Sudanese Preses Omar al-Bashir tae allow peacekeepin troops tae enter Sudan; an on global wairmin, pressin the issue repeatedly wi umwhile U.S. Preses George W. Bush. Ban haes received strang criticism frae OIOS, the UN internal audit unit, statin that the secretariat, unner Ban's leadership, is "drifting intae irrelevance".

In 2011, Ban ran unopposed for a seicont term as Secretar-General. On 21 Juin 2011, he wis unanimously re-electit bi the General Assembly an therefore continued tae serve till 31 December 2016, when he wis replaced bi António Guterres.

Freemit airtins

• Secretar-General Ban Ki-moon, offeecial Unitit Naitions profile, statements, reports, press briefins
• Column archive at The Guardian
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Ban Ki-moon on Charlie Rose

• Ban Ki-moon on IMDb
• Warks bi or aboot Ban Ki-moon in leebraries (WorldCat catalogue)
• Ban Ki-moon collectit news an commentary at Al Jazeera Inglish
• "Ban Ki-moon collectit news an commentary". The Guardian.
• Ban Ki-moon collectit news an commentary at The New York Times
• Ban Ki-moon collectit news an commentary at The Wall Street Journal
• Ban Ki-moon interview wi Dennis Wholey on 23 Februar 2006
• Ban Ki-moon's address tae the Unitit Naitions General Assembly, General Debate o the 63rd Session, 23 September 2008
• Ban Ki-moon on Saxty Years o UN Peacekeepin Archived 2010-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, Dublin Castle, 7 Julie 2009