Ban Ki-moon considers professorship offer from Harvard University

By Park Si-soo

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has received a professorship offer from his alma mater Harvard University, his aides said Friday.

Ban, who is visiting Kenya to see his daughter -- who works there for the United Nations -- is “positively” considering the offer, they said.

“He received the offer from Harvard Kennedy School toward the end of his term as U.N. chief,” an aide was quoted as saying in a report. “He rejected the first offer but received the second one recently.”

Other details of the offer were not known. Some say the professorship is a “lifetime position,” while others say it is a “visiting professorship” that would need to be renewed every year.

Ban earned a master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1985.