Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a distant second in the 1997 presidential election. Later, she was elected President in the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006.Johnson-Sirleaf is often referred to as the "Iron Lady", and she is Africa's first elected female head of state. She has pledged to embark on neoliberal reforms.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on 5 November 2007.
President of Liberia, 16 January 2006 - present. First woman to be elected head of state of an African country.
Aunt of comedian and actress Retta.
I think that unless you have cohesiveness in the family unit, the male,character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So,much of this comes from a lack of education.
Women work harder. And women are more honest. They have less reasons to,be corrupt.
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water.
But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile,again, with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.
The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all. .
