On 4 November, 2021, the Kofi Annan Foundation, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, and the Graduate Institute are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Kofi Annan Geneva Peace Address with the participation of Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 2011 and President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.

The inaugural address will be followed by a public Q&A session moderated by Heba Aly, CEO of The New Humanitarian. The entire event will be live-streamed on the Graduate Institute’s YouTube channel. Participants who wish to attend in person may register here. The lecture is part of the Geneva Peace Week and will take place at the Ivan Pictet Auditorium at Maison de la Paix at 6 pm. 

The photographer, Alex Majoli, took this portrait, in 2006, during the week of the inauguration of President Ellen-Johnson Sirleaf, in Monrovia, Liberia.