Elected in 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the female President of which country?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. Born in Monrovia to a Gola father and Kru-German mother, Sirleaf was educated at the College of West Africa before moving to the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College and Harvard University. She returned to Liberia to work in William Tolbert's government as Deputy Minister of Finance from 1971 to 1974 and later went to work for the World Bank
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf family are serving in other positions in government. She has been accused of interfering with a criminal investigation involving her stepson Fombah and the agency he leads. On resigning in October 2014, her Minister of Justice Christiana Tah, accused President Sirleaf of interference with criminal investigation into the illegal seizure of money from Korean businessmen by the NSA in a warrantless hotel raid in July 2014. In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited her name in the list of politicians named in "Paradise Papers" allegations. Speeches Profiles and interviews Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen