# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:49.157Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 13 June 1944 in South Korea, Ban Ki-moon served as foreign minister from 2004 to 2006 before launching an improbable campaign for UN secretary-general in early 2006. He visited every Security Council member state and turned front-runner fast. Elected 13 October 2006, he took office 1 January 2007 and spent the next decade overhauling peacekeeping operations, pressing Sudan's Omar al-Bashir to accept troops in Darfur, and lobbying Bush relentlessly on global warming. Forbes ranked him the 32nd most powerful person in the world in 2013. He helped push the Paris Agreement to ratification in under a year, earning a spot on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2016. He left office 31 December 2016, flirted briefly with a South Korean presidential run, then pivoted to climate work: chairing the IOC Ethics Commission, co-founding the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, leading the Global Green Growth Institute, and co-chairing the Global Commission on Adaptation alongside Bill Gates. He became the first major international diplomat to back the Green New Deal.