6. Amos Sawyer
Net Worth: $80 million
Amos Claudius Sawyer is a Liberian politician and academic who served as the President of the Interim Government of National Unity in Liberia. He was voted in by 35 leaders representing seven political parties and eleven interest groups.
Sawyer is Chairman of the Governance Reform Commission in Liberia, which has recently become the Governance Commission. His book, Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia (2005), explored the development of multi-party democracy in the country.
He supported Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the October 2005 and 2011 elections.