Secretaries
General of the United Nations are appointed by the General Assembly upon
recommendation of the Security Council for five year terms.
The following have served as Secretaries General of the
United Nations since its establishment.
Trygve Lie, Norway, Feb. 1, 1946 - Nov. 10, 1952
Dag Hammerskjold, Sweden, April 10, 1953 - Sept. 17, 1961
U Thant, Burma, Nov. 3, 1961 - Dec, 31, 1971
Kurt Waldheim, Austrian, Jan 1, 1972 - Dec. 31, 1981
Javier Perez de Cuellar, Peruvian, Jan 1, 1982 - Dec. 31,
1991.
Butros Butros Ghali, Egyptian, Jan 1, 1992 - Dec. 31, 1996.
Kofi Annan, Ghana, Jan. 1, 1997 - Dec. 31, 2006
Ban Ki-moon,
South Korea, Jan. 1. 2007 -
For UN links to
these former Secretaries General:
http://www.un.org/sg/formersgs.shtml
The Current Secretary-General BAN KI-MOON
Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea is the
eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations.
He brings to his post 37 years of service both in government and
on the global stage.
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Trade of South Korea at the time of his election.
He has served his country at postings in New
Delhi, Washington D.C. and Vienna. His work
with the United Nations dates
back to 1975.
Education
Mr. Ban received a bachelor's degree in international relations from
Seoul National University in 1970. In1985, he earned a master's degree
in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University.
Personal
Mr. Ban was born on 13 June 1944. He and his wife, Yoo (Ban) Soon-taek,
whom he met in high school in 1962, have one son and two daughters. In
addition to Korean, Mr. Ban speaks English and French.
http://www.un.org/sg/biography.shtml |
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Louise Fréchette
was the first Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. A national
of Canada, she assumed her duties on 2 March 1998, after having been
appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She remained at her post
until 31 March 2006. On 3 March 2006,
Mark Malloch Brown
was appointed as Deputy Secretary-General. He assumed his new functions
on 1 April following the departure of his predecessor Louise Fréchette.
He remained in his post until the end of December 2006.
| Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro
of Tanzania took office as Deputy Secretary-General of the
United Nations on 1 February 2007. She is the third Deputy
Secretary-General to be appointed since the post was established
in 1997. (http://www.un.org/sg/deputysg.shtml)
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