10 Victorious MIT Students Of All Time

By siliconindia  |   Friday, 30 January 2015, 02:12 IST
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Kofi Annan: Kofi Atta Annan served as the seventh secretary general of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. He earned his master’s degree in science from Sloan Fellows Program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In the year 2001, both Kofi Annan and the United Nations received the Noble Prize for a comparably organized and more peaceful world.
In 2012, he was the UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria. He participated in several humanitarian projects and won several awards including the Kora All Africa Music Lifetime Achievement Awards. He is now the chairman of a group founded by Nelson Mandela, called the Elders.
Salman Khan: His full name is Salman Aman Khan, who is Bangladeshi American educator, entrepreneur and former hedge Fund Analyst. He earned three degrees from MIT, of which two are bachelor’s degree in mathematics and electrical engineering and one is master’s in electrical engineering. He is the founder of the free online education and non profit organization, Khan Academy. Khan has come up with more than 48,000 video lessons that can help in teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects. Salman Khan has been named as one of the 100 influential persons of the world by Time.
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