Antoinette Sayeh

Antoinette Sayeh Monsio ( born July 12, 1958) is a Liberian financial expert and director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ), it was from 2006 to 2008 Minister of Finance in the Government of Liberia.

Life

Antoinette M. Sayeh was born on 12 July 1958 in the Liberian capital Monrovia. After school, she began studying in the U.S. and earned Swarthmore College Bachelor 's degree from Tufts University, she qualified in the field of International Development Economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

At the World Bank, she was Regional Director for the programs of the States Benin, Niger and Togo and worked intermittently on a project to financial reform of Pakistan.

In the first term of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf who studied finance expert Antoinette Sayeh took over the Ministry of Finance in January 2006. The main task called them, reducing the high public debt, the state-owned banks and to arrange finance and to fight corruption. Even while the legislature changed Antoinette Sayeh in July 2008 in the management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ) as Director of the Africa Department, in this capacity, she is now one of the most influential African politicians in the world.

Honors

  • Swarthmore College has the Lucretia Mott Award for Literature
  • The government of Niger thanked in April 2007 with a ceremony for the support.
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