Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: “Leymah Gbowee is too young to know what
we’ve done to reach peace and security in our country” – By
Magnus Taylor  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: determined on development,
prickly on corruption.  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of
Liberia, combines a matriarchal exterior with a sophisticated
economist’s intelligence. First elected in to office in 2006,
she has headed a process of national renewal and economic
reconstruction in a country that only recently dragged itself
out of over 20 years of civil war.  The scale of the task
required from President Sirleaf’s post-war government was
starkly underlined by the ‘to do’ list outlined at an RAS
Business Breakfast on Wednesday 31st October. Fundamentals, such
as getting the financial and economic house in order…rebuilding
relationships with the Bretton Woods institutions and sorting
out the entire fiscal system, show that whilst the people of
Liberia may have been ready and willing to start the rebuilding
process, their institutions were in no fi