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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

**Monrovia, Liberia **


 * Professional Profile **
 * ====Chairperson of the Mano River Union, where I lead efforts for political stability and economic cooperation among Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.====
 * ====Chairs the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), and is serving a second two-year term as Goodwill Ambassador for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Africa.====
 * In 2006, I established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with a mandate to promote national peace, security, unity and reconciliation by investigating more than 20 years of civil conflict in the country.
 * I have forged close relations with the United States, now Liberia's ally.
 * Trying to stop unsustainable borrowing for the future of Liberia and has successfully written off an $1.2 billion of foreign commercial debt from the approximately US $4.9 billion.
 * Openly and faithfully supports women rights movements and gay right movements.

Population Geography Economy Social Environment
 * About Liberia **
 * 4,128,572 people
 * Eastern Africa, Flat and Coastal Plains, Tropical Rainforests
 * One of the World’s poorest countries, Employment rate 15%, Liberian economy has depended heavily on foreign aid, foreign direct investment and exports of natural resources such as iron ore, rubber and timber
 * Americo- LIberian people, Life expectancy in Liberia is estimated to be 57.4 years, fertility rate of 5.9 births per woman, the maternal mortality rate stood at 990 per 100,000 births, the literacy rate of Liberia was estimated at 60.8%

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">References **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The new South African ambassador, Mr. Masilo Esau Mabeta, are working towards expanding relations in business by helping to establish relations between Liberia and South African Companies.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guinea <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sierra Leone
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have renewed diplomatic ties with pledges to strengthen socio-economic relations for the benefit of our people.
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trading between Sierra Leone and Liberia through the Mano River allows for close ties between <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ernest <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bai Koroma. ====

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pre- Presidential Career <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">President of Liberia
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experience **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Worked in Treasury Department in Liberia in 1965
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minister of Finance, in 1979, where I introduced measures to curb the mismanagement of government finances
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa at the rank of Assistant Administrator and Assistant Secretary General
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Senator of Liberia
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three campaigns for President and two terms as Liberia's First Female Head of State

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bibliography <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Executive Mansion." The Executive Mansion. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.emansion.gov.lr/content.php?sub=President's Biography>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Ellen Johnson Sirleaf." The New York Times. N.p., 01 Oct. 2012. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/j/ellen_johnson_sirleaf/index.html>. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"AllAfrica." From Fragile State to Competitive State. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://allafrica.com/stories/201210020013.html>.