She was not only the first woman ever elected president of Liberia, she was also Africa’s first woman president. Taking office after Liberia endured 14 years of brutal civil war, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made sure women were part of the peace-building process. Ambassador Melanne Verveer talks to this Nobel Prize laureate about leadership, and why countries that want to progress must have women participating at all levels of society .

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