Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
24th President of Liberia
Founder and Chair of the EJS Center
Founder and Chair of the EJS Center
Message from Our Founder
Internationally known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of freedom, peace, justice, women’s empowerment and democratic rule. As Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state, she has led Liberia through reconciliation and recovery following the nation’s decade-long civil war, as well as the Ebola Crisis, winning international acclaim for achieving economic, social, and political change.
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Since the first International Women’s Day was held over a century ago, much progress has been made toward gender equity as a fundamental human right and the basis for a
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Achieving peace and silencing the guns of conflict across Africa are critical if the continent is to achieve its full potential. In a keynote address at the Chatham House ‘Silencing
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