United Kingdom – Former President Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, SAP CEO, Bill McDermott, and Kofi Annan (post-mortem) and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Canadian Prime Minister, were jointly honored by the United Nations Association of New York for their work on SDGs and helping to eliminate gender discrimination around the world.
“The award comes at the time when trust in public institutions and the will for global collaboration is at an all-time low’, the UN Association of New York says.
Hours later, the former president co-chaired the Board Meeting of Emerging Public Leaders, a program designed to train and mentor young Africans whom are dedicated to public service in Africa and then as a participating board member in a meeting of the International Crisis Group in New York.
Whilst in the United Kingdom in the week, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf participated in a Board Meeting of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and then keynoted the 2018 Annual Lecture of the Royal African Society.
She also met with Harriett Baldwin, UK’s Minister of State for Africa at the UK Parliament and reemphasized the need for continuous support to Liberia.
We have a new government in place and I want to encourage the UK to remain focus on Liberia, she remarked.
The former President also traveled to Brussels to launch a high-level group of personalities for effective and strategic EU-African relations, with a focus on jobs, growth, and the challenge of young unemployment.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK’s Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin.
She will end her visit tomorrow when she travels to Edinburgh, Scotland, and to have a general discussion on Africa with David Pilling, the Africa’s editor of the Financial Times.