Antoinette Sayeh

Antoinette Sayeh

Antoinette Monsio Sayeh (born July 12, 1958 ) is a Liberian financial expert and director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), she was finance minister in the Liberian government from 2006 to 2008.

Life

Antoinette M. Sayeh was born on July 12, 1958 in the Liberian capital Monrovia . After attending school, she began studying in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College , and a PhD in International Development Economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University .

At the World Bank she was regional director for the programs of the states of Benin , Niger and Togo and worked temporarily on a project for the financial reform of Pakistan .

In the first legislative period of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , the qualified financial expert Antoinette Sayeh took over the Ministry of Finance in January 2006. Her main task was to reduce the high level of national debt, to regulate the state banking and finance system and to fight corruption . During the legislative period, Antoinette Sayeh switched to the management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as director for the Africa Department in July 2008 , in this role she is now one of the most influential African politicians in the world.

Honors

• the Swarthmore College has the Lucretia Mott Award awarded for literature
• the government of Niger expressed its thanks for the support with a ceremony in April 2007.

literature

• Antoinette Monsio Sayeh: Monetary dependence, payments disequilibria, and fiscal policy in a small, open, low-income economy: experiments with a hybrid model of Liberia . Ed .: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Boston 1985, p. 383 (English, habilitation thesis).
• NN: Interview with Liberian Finance Minister Antoinette M. Sayeh: S “tick to principles” . In: Development and Cooperation . tape 7/8 , 2008, ISSN  0723-6980 , p. 276-278 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} People changing the Face of Africa, Antoinette Sayeh, Biographical data. (No longer available online.) In: African Success. Archived from the original on December 9, 2010 ; Retrieved January 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Liberian cabinet posts announced. In: BBC News (Jan. 17, 2006). Retrieved January 8, 2011 . 
3. ^ Antoinette Sayeh, Biographical data. (No longer available online.) In: Hunt Alternatives Funt. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 8, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.