Togba-Nah Tipoteh

Togba-Nah Tipoteh (born 1941 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a politician, economist, and educator, having mostly recently been presidential candidate for Liberia's 2005 elections, running as the candidate for the Alliance for Peace and Democracy. He has worked in international development in the United States, the Netherlands, Mozambique, Ghana, South Africa and other countries, as well as for the United Nations system: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), International Monetary Fund (IMF), [Economic Community of Africa] (ECA), and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

*Founder & Director - Susuku Incorporated (1971 - )
*Associate Professor of Economics, Chair of the Economics Department and Director of the Management Research Institute at the University of Liberia.(1971 - 1974)
*Budget Advisor to President William Tolbert
*Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs - Government of Liberia (1980 - 1981)under Samuel K. Doe, but resigned citing human rights abuse from the government.
*President - Movement for Justice in Africa
*Former Standard Bearer - Liberian People's Party

For more than three decades, he has been actively involved with democratic activities in promotion of human rights, liberties, constitutional rule, and growth with development in Liberia and throughout Africa. He is President of the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA), an organization with a Pan-African strategy for justice and democracy; Presidential Candidate for the Liberian People's Party (LPP); founding Chairman of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), an alliance of Liberian political parties; Director-General of SUSUKUU, Liberia's oldest (founded in 1971), a non-governmental development organization credited by the West Africa Peacekeeping Force (ECOMOG) as helping to disarm over 10,000 combatants; and former Chairman of the Interest Groups of Liberia, a consortium of 32 national organizations with a collective membership of well over one million persons.

Tipoteh is also a businessman, serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kukatornon Reconstruction Corporation. He was Liberia's national Tennis Champion for 15 unbroken years. He created a scholarship program, where he mentors and sends hundreds of children from all counties of Liberia to schools and colleges in Liberia. To his admirers he is known as "the only man on the ground" -- the only presidential candidate to remain in Liberia after the 1997 election.

Education

*College of West Africa (high school)
*University of Liberia, Ohio (bachelor's degree)
*UCLA (master's degree)
*University of Nebraska, 1969 (Ph.d in economics, as a Harvard University/United Nations Special Fund Fellow in Economic Development)

Publications

*Democracy: the Call of the Liberian People [1981]

Awards

For Courage: by the National Internally Displaced People Association (NIDPA), a Liberian Civil society organization with membership from 9 displaced camps.

Family

Born in Monrovia to Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Togba Roberts of Grand Kru County. Married former Ms. Fatu Kanneh of Lofa County.

2005 Presidential elections

:"More info (including other candidates): Liberia elections, 2005"

ources

* [http://www.analystnewspaper.com/idps_tipoteh_honored.htm Liberia Analyst Corporation]