Christiana Thorpe President
Dr. Christiana Thorpe (born 1955 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is the current Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission, an independent agency created by the Sierra Leone government, and is in charge of organising and supervising national, regional and local elections in Sierra Leone. When Captain Valentine Strasser seized power in 1992, Dr. Thorpe was the only woman in his cabinet of 19 ministers, serving as Deputy Minister of Education. Now she's the first woman ever to be the Chief Electoral Commissioner in the country's history. She is a member of the Creole ethnic group and was formerly a nun.