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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician and former president known for her leadership and pioneering role as Africa's first elected female head of state.

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Known for: First elected female head of state in Africa and President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. She was educated at the College of West Africa. 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 1973 to 1974. Later, she worked again in the West, for the World Bank in the Caribbean and Latin America. In 1979, she received a cabinet appointment as Minister of Finance, serving to 1980. After Samuel Doe seized power in 1980 in a coup d'état and executed Tolbert, Sirleaf fled to the United States. She worked for Citibank and then the Equator Bank. She returned to Liberia to contest a senatorial seat for Montserrado County in 1985, an election that was disputed. She was arrested as a result of her open criticism of the military government in 1985 and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, although she was later released. She finished in second place at the 1997 presidential election, which was won by Charles Taylor. Sirleaf won the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006. She was re-elected in 2011. She was the first woman in Africa elected as president of her country.

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