Elia Ravelomanantsoa

Elia Ravelomanantsoa (born 1960) is a Malagasy politician and the director of Synergy-FCB.

Born in Antananarivo, Ravelomanantsoa set herself up in business at the age of seventeen.

In 1996, she founded Democratic Participation for Economic and Social Redress in Madagascar.

In 2004, Ravelomanantsoa was appointed Chair of the Global Congress of Black Women.

In 2006, Ravelomanantsoa became the first ever woman to stand to be President of Madagascar, when she took part in the presidential election held in December of that year.