Liberia president ellen johnson sirleaf

President of Liberia from to

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October ) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from to Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.^[2][3]

Sirleaf was born in Monrovia to a Gola father and Kru-German mother.

She was educated at the College of West Africa.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Academy of Achievement

She completed her education in the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Harvard University. She returned to Liberia to work in William Tolbert's government as Deputy Minister of Finance from to Later, she worked again in the West, for the World Bank in the Caribbean and Latin America.

In , she received a cabinet appointment as Minister of Finance, serving to

After Samuel Doe seized power in in a coup d'état and executed Tolbert, Sirleaf fled to the United States. She worked for Citibank and then the Equator Bank. She Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Biography - children, school, mother ... GEMU