Ban Ki-moon

Also known as Ban Kimoon, Ban Ki Moon, Ki-moon Ban, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, HE Ban Ki Moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

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Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician, diplomat, and writer born in Eumseong County in 1944. He served as the United Nations Secretary-General and worked for the United Nations in the field of international relations. He is an independent politician who speaks English, Korean, and French, with Korean as his native language. His name in native language is 반기문, 潘基文.

He was educated at Seoul National University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard University. His notable works include Ban Ki-Moon Quotes, Addressing Climate Change, Resolved, Year at the Helm of the United Nations General Assembly, and Conflict Resolution. He has received the Order of Friendship, James A. Van Fleet Award, Order of Rio Branco, and Order of Sikatuna. He resides in North Chungcheong and New York City and has three children.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1944
Works: 6

Top works

Ban Ki-Moon Quotes
Addressing Climate Change
Resolved
Year at the Helm of the United Nations General Assembly
Conflict Resolution

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Film & TV

Acting · Eumseong, North Chungcheong, South Korea

Ban Ki-moon 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.

Known for

The Quiet Diplomat — Self2025
Jean Todt: The Method — Self2022
Now — Self (archive footage)2021
How to Become a Tyrant — Self (archive footage)2021
On Her Shoulders — Self2018
PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Peace in Motion — Self2018
The Final Year — Self (archive footage)2018
Jaha's Promise — Self2017
Before the Flood — Self2016
Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World — Self2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Origin: Japan

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1
Total plays: 1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells
· 2013 · cited 9,148x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
Lead Iodide Perovskite Sensitized All-Solid-State Submicron Thin Film Mesoscopic Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 9%
· 2012 · cited 7,513x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites
· 2011 · cited 6,089x

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Quotes

“Malala is a brave and gentle advocate of peace who through the simple act of going to school became a global teacher. She said one pen can change the world - and proved how one young woman can lead the way.”
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.”
“When we stand together, there is no limit to what we can achieve.Three days ago, young people from many nations stood together in the balcony of this Hall. They asked for one thing above all: change.There is nothing we can say to the world’s children that can convince them the world needs to be the way it is.That means we must do everything we can to close the gap between the world as it is, and the world as it should be. That is the mission of the United Nations.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Ban Ki-moon (Korean: 반기문; born 13 June 1944) 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.

On 13 October 2006, Ban was elected as 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 around the world. 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 the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013, the highest among South Koreans. In 2014, he was named the third most powerful South Korean after Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong. 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.

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