About Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade between 2004 and 2006. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations; he began to campaign for the office in February 2006. As the foreign minister of South Korea, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a manoeuvre that subsequently turned him into the campaign's front-runner.
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University
honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos
Medal of Honor of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty
honorary doctor of the University of Auckland
honorary doctor of Comenius University
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Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Distinguished SNU Members
honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
honorary doctorate from Sorbonne University
honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
Tipperary International Peace Award
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
National Order of the Ivory Coast
Order of Saint Agatha
Order of Liberty
Order of Friendship
Order of Sikatuna
Order of the Sun of Peru
Order of the Netherlands Lion
Order of the Liberator General San Martín
Order of Saint-Charles
Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Order of Rio Branco
Order of Civil Merit
National Order of Burkina Faso
Order of José Matías Delgado
National Order of Madagascar
Order of Merit for Distinguished Services
James A. Van Fleet Award
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Gold Olympic Order
Order of Unity
Order of Ismoili Somoni
National Order of Merit
Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
Dostyk Order of grade I
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
Emblem of Unity
Amir Amanullah Khan Award
Collar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit
honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Humanitarian of the Year
