Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleafis the 24th and current President of Liberia, in office since 2006. 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 second in the 1997 presidential election won by Charles Taylor. She won the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006, and she was a successful candidate for re-election in 2011. Sirleaf...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth29 October 1938
CityMonrovia, Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf quotes about
When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country.