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|image = Ban Ki-moon April 2015.jpgborder |office = 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations |deputy = Asha-Rose Migiro Jan Eliasson |term_start = 1 January 2007 |term_end = |predecessor = Kofi Annan |successor = |office1 = Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade |primeminister1 = Goh Kun Lee Hun-jai Lee Hae-chan Han Duck-soo Han Myeong-sook |term_start1 = 17 January 2004 |term_end1 = 1 December 2006 |predecessor1 = Yoon Young-kwan |successor1 = Song Min-soon |birth_date = |birth_place = Onnan, Japanese Korea〔pg 493, "Local Administration, Chapter XXIV: Korea (Chōsen)," The Japan-Manchukuo Year Book 1938, Japan-Manchukuo Year Book Co., Kojimachi-ku, Tokyo〕〔(Eumseong County: "The Birthplace of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon" )〕 |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Yoo Soon-taek |children = 3 |alma_mater = Seoul National University Harvard University }} Ban Ki-moon (; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean statesman and politician who is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. Ban was the foreign minister of South Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006 he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General. Ban was initially considered a long shot for the office. As foreign minister of South Korea, however, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that turned him into the campaign's front runner. On 13 October 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly. On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan. Ban struggled in his first month to adjust to the culture of the United Nations, but quickly found his bearings and passed several major reforms on peacekeeping and UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban has taken particularly strong views on global warming, pressing the issue repeatedly with U.S. President George W. Bush, and on the Darfur conflict, where he helped persuade Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan. Ban was named the world's 32nd most powerful person by the ''Forbes'' list of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013, the highest among South Koreans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Forbes">title=Ban Ki-moon )〕 In 2014, he was named the third most powerful South Korean after Lee Kun-Hee and Lee Jae-yong.〔http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/list/#tab:overall〕 ==Early life and education== Ban was born on 13 June 1944 in the small farming village of Haengchi, Wonnam Township (''-myeon''), in Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province in Korea.〔 His family then moved to the nearby town of Chungju, where he grew up.〔 During Ban's childhood, his father had a warehouse business, but the warehouse went bankrupt and the family lost its middle-class standard of living. When Ban was six, his family fled to a remote mountainside for much of the Korean War.〔 After the war ended, his family returned to Chungju. At this time, Ban has mentioned meeting American soldiers.〔 In secondary school (Chungju High School), Ban became a star student, particularly in his studies of the English language. In 1962, Ban won an essay contest sponsored by the Red Cross and earned a trip to the United States where he lived in San Francisco with a host family for several months.〔 As part of the trip, Ban met U.S. President John F. Kennedy.〔 When a journalist at the meeting asked Ban what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said, "I want to become a diplomat."〔 He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National University in 1970, and earned a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1985. At Harvard, he studied under Joseph Nye, who remarked that Ban had "a rare combination of analytic clarity, humility and perseverance".〔 Ban was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta on 22 April 2009. He further received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Washington in October 2009. In addition to his native Korean, Ban speaks English and French. There have been questions, however, regarding the extent of his knowledge of French, one of the two working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ban Ki-moon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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