Nane Annan, the wife of Kofi Annan (she is commonly referred to as the "first lady of the UN"), was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She trained as a lawyer and worked for many years in the public sector. After receiving a law degree from Stockholm University in 1968, she entered the Swedish Court System, becoming an Assistant Judge at the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Appeal in Stockholm in 1975. On leave from the Court, she assisted in legislative projects as Assistant Secretary of the Swedish Parliamentary Aliens Act Commission (1976-1981) and as expert of the Swedish Commission on Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination (1979-1980). In 1981, she joined UNHCR Geneva as a Legal Officer until 1983 when she moved to New York. After her husband Kofi became the secretary general of the United Nations in 1997, she became a strong advocate of the millenium goals, ending poverty, and helping less fortunate children who cannot recieve an education. Image File history File links Nane. ... Image File history File links Nane. ...
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Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
Annan is married to Nane Maria (Lagergren) Annan of Sweden, a lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg.
Annan then studied at the Institute for Advanced International Studies ("Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales") in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961–62, later attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971–72) as a Sloan Fellow and receiving a Master of Science degree in management.
Annan's Secretary-Generalship was renewed on January 1, 2001, an unusual deviation from informal policy.
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