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About Carnegie Corporation
Kofi Annan Chairman,
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Kofi
Annan served as United Nations Secretary-General from 1997-2006.
He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa a partnership working to help millions of small-scale
farmers and their families lift themselves out of poverty and hunger.
During his tenure at the UN, he prioritized a program of comprehensive
reform aimed at revitalizing the United Nations. He was a constant
advocate for human rights, the rule of law, the Millennium Development
Goals and Africa, and sought to bring the organization closer to
the global public by forging ties with civil society, the private
sector and other partners.
Under his leadership, UN peacekeeping was bolstered in ways that
enabled the organization to adeptly manage a swift rise in the number
and size of operations and personnel. It was also at Mr. Annan's
urging that, in 2005, Member States established two new intergovernmental
bodies: the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council.
Mr. Annan played a central role in the creation of the Global Fund
to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the adoption of the UN's
first-ever counter-terrorism strategy, and the acceptance by Member
States of the “responsibility to protect” people from
genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
His “Global Compact” initiative, launched in 1999, has
become the world's largest effort to promote corporate social responsibility.
When elected to the Secretary-Generalship in 1997, Mr. Annan became
the first UN Secretary-General to come directly from the United
Nations staff, and the first from a Sub-Saharan African nation to
hold the position.
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