Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Awards

Awards

• Recipient of the 1988 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Freedom of Speech Award
• Ralph Bunche International Leadership Award
• Grand commander Star of Africa Redemption of Liberia
• Commandeur de l'Ordre du Togo (Commander of the Order of Togo)
• 2006 Common Ground Award recipient, Search for Common Ground
• 2006 Laureate of the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, The Hunger Project
• 2006 Distinguished Fellow, Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory University
• 2006 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws from Marquette University
• 2006 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award from Synergos
• 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States, awarded to Sirleaf by U.S. President George W. Bush on 5 November 2007
• 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Indiana University
• 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth College
• 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University
• 2009 Awarded the EITI Award for "the rapid progress the country has made towards implementation of the EITI"
• 2009 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Tampa
• 2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale University
• 2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 2010 Friend of the Media in Africa Award from The African Editor's Union
• 2011 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University
• 2011 African Gender Award
• 2011 Nobel Peace Prize