Kofi Annan And Nane Maria Annan Editorial Image

Then United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, attends the premiere of `The Interpreter` with his Swedish wife, Nane Maria Annan at the 4th Annual Tribeca Film Festival at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on April 19, 2005. The movie spy thriller was filmed in part at the United Nations. Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, was The UN chief for 10 years, from January 1997 until December, 2006. He died in Bern, Switzerland, on August 18, 2018, at 80 years of age after a brief illness. Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.