 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Former President of Liberia)
Syllabus of the Subject: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize).
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberian Nobel Peace Prize, Methodist)
- His election as the President of Liberia
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Peace Prize, Liberia)

Description of the Subject: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Nobel
Peace Prize, Liberia)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was born in Monrovia (Liberia) on October 29, 1938. She is considered by Forbes as the most powerful African Women.
- In 2011, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee (Liberia), and Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) in recognition for their non-violent (Ahimsa) struggle for women's
safety and rights
- In 1965, she joined the Liberian Treasury Department
- In 1979, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected to
Minister of Finances of Liberia
- In 1980, after the coup d´etat; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 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
she joined the World Bank (United States)
- In 1992, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf joined the United Nations Development Programme working in African affairs
- In 1997, she resigned to the UN work and returned to Liberia. In the elections;
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was ranked second (first was Charles Taylor)
- Then; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf auto-exiled in Ivory Coast where she founded “Kormah Development and Investment Corporation.”
- In 1999; she works in the Organisation of the African Unity (today, African Union) committee of the Rwandan genocide
- In 2003, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf returned to Liberia and was elected to Chairperson of the Governance Reform Commission
- In 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected as the first female President of Liberia. As the Liberian President, the country has attracted more than 16 billion dollars in FDI, mainly in the mining sector
- Ellen Johnson was elected Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism (NEPAD)
- 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
- She studied at Harvard and the University of Colorado
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is Christian
Protestant (Methodist)
More information about Liberia (African Portal - EENI Global Business School).
- Monrovia

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is a Politician of the West African Economic Area (African Civilisation)
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