Monrovia, Liberia – The death of Charles E. Sirleaf, 68, son of former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and former Central Bank of Liberia Governor has left many people in deep sorrow. On Sunday, June 2, 2024. On social media and in other places, condolences have been flooding in. Of particular note is a phone call reported from President Joseph N. Boakai, who is in Seoul, Korea, for the African Development Bank’s first-ever Korea-Africa Summit.
Although all the specifics surrounding his death are yet unknown, family-close sources have suggested that it came after a brief illness. The family has asked to be kept private throughout this difficult period.
Following in his mother’s footsteps, the late Sirleaf went on to become a banker. Later, he work at the Ministry of Finance, where he had completed his schoolwork as a young kid in the 1970s. In 2004 he made his home at the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), where he went on to become a major player in the country’s financial scene.
Sirleaf, a graduate of the College of West Africa (CWA), continued on to Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where she obtained a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He stayed in Atlanta, where he began his career in a variety of managerial banking positions at Citizens and Southern Bank (C&S) and Citicorp Credit Corporation (1987β1992). Finally, he returned to Liberia in 1993 to take the helm of trade and commercial development at Meridien BIAO Bank, Liberia Ltd.
