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The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (? born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people. From 23 February until 31 August 2012, Annan was the UN?–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria担任联合国?–阿拉伯联盟联合叙利亚问题特别代表 , to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there.Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN‘s lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution. Early years and education Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means twin. Annan and his sister were born into one of the countrys aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs. From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan has said that the school taught him that suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere. In 1958, Annan began studying economics at the Kumasi College of Science and Technology, now the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana. He received a Ford Foundation grant, enabling him to complete his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, in 1961. Annan then did a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62. After some years of work experience, he studied at the MIT Sloan School of Management[8] (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows program and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree. Annan is fluent in English, French, Akan, some Kru languages and other African languages Early career