LIBERIAN ENERGY NETWORK

LEN grew out of a 2009 meeting between then Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Richard Fahey. Mr. Fahey, a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia in the 1960's was visiting the country with a group of Return Peace Corps Volunteers to assess the conditions in post-conflict Liberia. Soon after the meeting Mr. Fahey retired from his law practice and became a 2010 Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) Fellow at the Harvard University. During his Fellowship year Mr. Fahey developed the business model for LEN. In 2011 he conducted market research and focus-group surveys in Liberia, established relationships with Liberian civil society organizations and conducted a pilot project to test the business model. In early 2011 Robert Saudek, a 2011 ALI Fellow joined Mr. Fahey to help refine and implement the LEN business model. In early 2012 Abubakar K. Sherif, a former community developer in Liberia ,and life long friend of Mr. Fahey and former student of his wife, Suzanne, who was also a..

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