Awards
- Recipient of the 1988 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Freedom of Speech Award
- Ralph Bunche International Leadership Award
- Grand commander Star of Africa Redemption of Liberia
- Commandeur de l'Ordre du Togo (Commander of the Order of Togo)
- 2006 Common Ground Award recipient, Search for Common Ground
- 2006 Laureate of the Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, The Hunger Project
- 2006 Distinguished Fellow, Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory University
- 2006 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws from Marquette University
- 2006 David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award from Synergos
- 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States, awarded to Sirleaf by U.S. President George W. Bush on 5 November 2007
- 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Indiana University
- 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth College
- 2008 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University
- 2009 Awarded the EITI Award for "the rapid progress the country has made towards implementation of the EITI"
- 2009 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Tampa
- 2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale University
- 2010 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- 2010 Friend of the Media in Africa Award from The African Editor's Union
- 2011 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University
- 2011 African Gender Award
- 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
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