ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Facts

Photo: K. Opprann
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Born: 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia
Residence at the time of the award:Liberia
Prize motivation: "fortheir non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Role: President of Liberia
Field: peace movement, women's rights

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Nacido: 29 Octubre 1938, Monrovia, Liberia
Residencia en el momento de la adjudicación: Liberia
Motivación Premio: "por su lucha no violenta por la seguridad de las mujeres y por losderechos de las mujeres a la plena participación en el trabajo de construcción de la paz"
Función: Presidente de Liberia
Campo: movimiento por la paz, los derechos de las mujeres

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Biographical
Internationally known as Africa's "Iron Lady," President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of peace, justice and democratic rule. She grew up in Liberian capital ofMonrovia, where she married and had four sons.
President Johnson Sirleaf later moved to the United States where she earned an accounting degree from the Madison College of Business and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
In her efforts to bring justice to her people in Liberia, she has spent more than a year in jail at the hands of themilitary dictatorship of General Samuel Doe and had her life threatened by former President Charles Taylor. She campaigned relentlessly for Taylor's removal from office and played an active and supportive role in the Transitional Government of Liberia as the country prepared for elections in October of 2005.
President Johnson Sirleaf was a presidential candidate in the 1997 Liberia general electionwhere she finished second in the field of 13. Before that, she served for five years as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Program as Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and was the first woman to lead the United Nations Development Project for Africa.
She served as the Chairperson of the Governance ReformCommission of the National Transitional Government of Liberia until she resigned in March 2004 to accept the nomination of the Unity Party of Liberia as the party's leader.
In November 2005, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected President of Liberia and became the first woman to lead an African nation. In the elections she defeated popular world-class soccer star George Weah with an impressive 59.4percent of the vote.
In October 2007, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civil award, for her personal courage and unwavering commitment to expanding freedom and improving the lives of people in Liberia and across Africa. And in 2010, as the only female and African Head of State, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was named byNewsweek Magazine as one of the World Top Ten Leaders.

Internacionalmente conocida como de África "Dama de Hierro", la presidenta Ellen Johnson Sirleaf es un promotor líder de la paz, la justicia y la democracia. Ella creció en la capital de Liberia, Monrovia, donde se casó y tuvo cuatro hijos.
El presidente Johnson Sirleaf más tarde se trasladó a los Estados Unidos donde obtuvo un grado decontabilidad de la universidad de Madison de Empresas y una Maestría en Administración Pública de la Escuela de Gobierno Kennedy de la Universidad de Harvard.
En sus esfuerzos por llevar la justicia a su pueblo de Liberia, que ha pasado más de un año en la cárcel a manos de la dictadura militar del general Samuel Doe y la había amenazado de muerte por el ex presidente Charles Taylor. Ella hizo...