Abdurrahim
El-Keib has been the Prime Minister of Libya since November 2011. He
was elected to fill the vacancy left when Mahmoud Jibril kept his
promise to leave office when Gaddafi's dictatorship had ended.
Little known inside Libya prior to his election, he had fled the
country in 1975, becoming an electrical engineering professor in the
United States and then in the United Arab Emirates.
A
dual Libyan-American citizen, El-Keib had little political experience
before joining the National Transitional Council in August 2011. A
leader in the Muslim community near his university, he was known as
an expert fundraiser and his outreach to non-Muslims following the
September 11 attacks. Elected by a slim majority of the Transitional
Council, analysts suspect he was chosen because he lacks any
connection to the Gaddafi regime.
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