Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (President of Liberia)

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Sub-subject: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize). Syllabus:

  1. The Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Methodist)
  2. His election as the President of Liberia
The sub-subject “Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Nobel Peace Prize, South Africa)” is studied...
  1. Doctorate in Business in Africa (e-learning)
  2. Course: West Africa
  3. Masters: International Business, Africa

Languages of study English or French Ellen Johnson Portuguese Ellen Johnson Spanish Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Area of Knowledge: Africa

Sample of the Sub-subject: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia):
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Liberia

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Description of the Sub-Subject: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

  1. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was born in Monrovia (Liberia) on October 29, 1938. She is the most powerful woman in Africa (Forbes)
  2. In 2011, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), and Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) in recognition for their non-violent (Ahimsa) struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights
  3. In 1965, she joined the Liberian Treasury Department
  4. In 1979, was elected to Minister of Finances of Liberia
  5. In 1980, after the coup d´etat; she worked at the Liberian Bank for Development and Investment, but she has fled from Liberia. She was hired by Citicorp in Nairobi (Kenya), and later joined the World Bank (the United States)
  6. In 1992, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf joined the United Nations Development Programme working in African affairs
  7. In 1997, she resigned to the UN work and returned to Liberia. In the elections; she was ranked second (first was Charles Taylor)
  8. Then; she auto-exiled in Ivory Coast where she founded “Kormah Development and Investment Corporation.”
  9. In 1999; she works in the Organisation of African Unity (today, African Union) committee of Rwandan genocide
  10. In 2003, she returned to Liberia and was elected to Chairperson of the Governance Reform Commission
  11. In 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected as the first female President of Liberia. As Liberian President, the country has attracted more than 16 billion dollars in FDI, mainly in the mining sector
  12. Ellen Johnson was elected Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism (NEPAD)
  13. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the President of the Mano River Union, a West African regional integration institution formed by Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
  14. She studied in Harvard and the University of Colorado
  15. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is Christian Protestant (Methodist)
  16. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is a Politican of the West African Economic Area of the African Civilisation


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