Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and New Zealand ex-Prime Minister Helen Clark will lead a World Health Organization panel scrutinizing the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks during a Reuters interview in Kigali, Rwanda April 28, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana/File Photo
Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Africa’s first democratically elected female president, and Clark, who sought the top United Nations job in 2016, acknowledged that the study of how the world tackled this crisis, to prepare for the next one, will not be easy. Johnson Sirleaf, 81, a Liberian-born, U.S.-educated economist, served 12 years as her West African country’s leader, a period that included the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak that killed thousands.
In a March BBC editorial, Johnson Sirleaf called for solidarity against COVID-19 while criticising early lapses by states.Clark, New Zealand’s leader from 1999 to 2008, lost out four years ago to Antonio Guterres to lead the UN. She previously led the UN Development Programme and serves on a WHO panel on childhood obesity.
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