Abdurrahim El-Keib

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abdurrahim El-Keib
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 2, 1950(1950-03-02)
Age	74
Date Of Death	April 21, 2020, United States
Birthplace	Tripoli
Country	Libya
Birth City	Tripoli
Horoscope	Capricorn

Abdurrahim El-Keib Biography

Abdurrahim El-Keib is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 2, 1950 in Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. Abdurrahim Abdulhafiz El-Keib, PhD, (Arabic: عبد الرحيم عبد الحفيظ الكيب ‎; also transcribed Abdel Rahim AlKeeb, Abdul Raheem Al-Keeb, etc.; 2 March 1950 – 21 April 2020) was a Libyan politician, professor of electrical engineering, and entrepreneur who served as interim Prime Minister of Libya from 24 November 2011 to 14 November 2012. He was appointed to the position by the country’s National Transitional Council on the understanding that he would be replaced when the General National Congress was elected and took power. Power was handed to the Congress on 8 August 2012, and the assembly appointed El-Keib’s successor Ali Zeidan in October 2012.

In 2005, El-Keib founded the Libyan International Company for Energy and Technology.

El-keib died from a heart attack on 21 April 2020 at the age of 70.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation from 2001 to 2007, a member of the Science and Technology Panel, the Islamic Development Bank, Senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor for the IEEE Power Engineering Society Letters, 1992–2000, and the World Science and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Transactions on Power Systems, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Korean Institute of electrical Engineers (KIEE)/Society of Power Engineering, and of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Innovations in Energy Systems and Power (IJESP).

Abdurrahim El-Keib Net Worth

Abdurrahim El-Keib is one of the richest Politician from Libya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abdurrahim El-Keib 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

El-Keib moved to Los Angeles, California, where he earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1976; he then moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where he earned his doctorate from North Carolina State University in 1984. He joined the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1985 and became Professor in 1996. He has lectured at the University of Tripoli, North Carolina State University, and the University of Alabama. El-Keib, an expert in power system economics, planning and controls, and in strategic planning for higher education took leave from his tenured faculty position at Alabama to direct the Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates from 1999 to 2001. In 2006 he left Alabama to chair the EE Department and to lead the effort to establish the graduate program at The Petroleum Institute in the UAE (where El-Keib remained until he joined the Libyan Transitional National Council as one of its representatives for Tripoli in 2011). He supervised many M.Sc. theses and PhD dissertations on “capacitive compensation planning and operation for primary distribution feeders” and was the recipient of several teaching and research awards.

El-Keib left Libya in 1976 and joined the Libyan opposition, and over the years worked to help finance the movement. From a prestigious family from Tripoli with roots and part of his family in Sabratha – a coastal town 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of Tripoli – during his exile, El-Keib would meet his family, who remained in Libya, during their mutual excursions to Tunis, Morocco, and elsewhere.

On 1 November 2011, El-Keib was named the interim Prime Minister of Libya after garnering 26 out of 51 votes from the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC). Despite repeated clashes with the NTC, his Cabinet stayed in office through the national elections, which it held successfully in a transparent, free, and democratic manner.

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