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.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Nobel
Peace Prize, Liberia)
The Subject “Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Nobel Peace Prize, Liberia)” belongs to the following Online Higher Educational Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:
Masters and Doctorate in Global Business adapted to the Liberian Students.
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 Organization 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-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.