# List of awards and honours received by Kofi Annan

The following is a list of honours and awards received by Kofi Annan.

## List
### Honours

    1999: Honorary Silver Medal of Jan Masaryk
    1999: Ceremonial first pitch, Game 3 of the World Series
    2000: Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana
    2000: Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
    2001: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
    2002: Title of Busumuru, Honour of the Asante Empire
    2002: Knight Commander of the Most Courteous Order of Lesotho
    2005: Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty (Portugal)
    2006: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
    2007: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria
    2007: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) from Queen Elizabeth II (UK)
    2008: Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
    2013: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour

### Awards

    2000: Kora All Africa Music Awards in the category of Lifetime Achievement
    2001: Nobel Foundation, The Nobel Peace Prize, jointly presented to Kofi Annan and the United Nations
    2002: Profiles in Courage Award.
    2002: The American Whig-Cliosophic Society James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.
    2003: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    2003: Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation at the University of St. Gallen
    2004: Freedom medal
    2006: International World Order of Culture, Science and Education, Award of the European Academy of Informatization, All
Belgium
    2006: IPS International Achievement Award.
    2006: Olof Palme Prize
    2007: Wooden Crossbow, special award from the Swiss World Economic Forum
    2007: People in Europe Award of Verlagsgruppe Passau
    2007: MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Award for International Justice
    2007: North-South Prize of the Council of Europe
    2008: Harvard University Honors Prize
    2008: Gottlieb Duttweiler Award
    2008: Peace of Westphalia Prize
    2008: Open Society Award – CEU Business School Budapest.
    2011: Gothenburg Award
    2012: Confucius Peace Prize

### Honorary degrees

* Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (Kumasi), Honorary Doctor of Science, 24 August 1998
* United Nations Mandated University for Peace, Honorary President, 1999
* Lund University, Honorary Doctor of Law, 1999
* National University of Ireland, Doctor of Law, 22 January 1999
* Technische Universität Dresden, doctor honoris causa, 27 April 1999
* Howard University, honorary doctorate of humane letters, 8 May 1999
* Comenius University in Bratislava, doctor honoris causa, 14 July 1999
* University of Michigan, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 3 May 1999
* University of Notre Dame, Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, 21 May 2000
* Seton Hall University, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Honorary Doctorate, February 2001
* Brown University, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 28 May 2001
* Liberty Medal International Selection Commission, Liberty Medal, 4 July 2001
* Free University of Berlin, doctor honoris causa, 13 July 2001
* Tilburg University, Honorary Doctorate, 2002
* University of Alcalá, Doctor Honoris Causa, 9 April 2002
* Northwestern University, Doctor of Laws, 21 June 2002
* University of Pittsburgh, honorary Doctor of Public and International Affairs degree 21 October 2003
* Ghent University (Belgium), doctor honoris causa 21 March 2003
* Harvard University, 2004
* Carleton University, Legum Doctor, honoris causa, 9 March 2004
* University of Ottawa, Doctor of the University Degree, 9 March 2004
* University of Pennsylvania, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 16 May 2005
* Universidade Nova de Lisboa, doctor honoris causa, 12 October 2005
* The George Washington University, Doctor of Public Service, 5 May 2006
* University of Tokyo, Honorary Doctorate, 18 May 2006
* Georgetown University, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, 30 October 2006
* University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize (originally awarded 2003, but postponed due to Annan's illness), 18 November 2006
* Princeton University, Crystal Tiger Award, 28 November 2006
* Uppsala University, receiver of the Uppsala University Linnaeus Medal in gold, 23 May 2007, and doctor honoris causa 26 May 2007
* King's College London, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 28 May 2008
* University of Neuchâtel, Honorary Doctorate, 1 November 2008
* Glasgow Caledonian University, Doctor of Laws, 18 November 2011