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Abdurrahim El-Keib

Abdurrahim El-Keib عبد الرحيم الكيب

Transitional Prime Minister of Libya
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 November 2011
President	Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Deputy	Mustafa Abushagur
Preceded by	Ali Tarhouni (Acting)
Personal details
Born	1950 aoremovetag(age 60–61) Sabratha, Libya
Nationality	Dual Libyan / American
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	University of Tripoli (B.A.) University of Southern California (M.A.) North Carolina State University (Ph.D.)
Profession	Electrical Engineering Professor
Religion	Sunni Islam

Abdurrahim Khaled Abdulhafiz El-Keib, Ph.D., (Arabic عبد الرحيم خالد عبد الحفيظ الكيب; also transcribed Abdel Rahim AlKeeb, Abdul Raheem Al-Keeb, etc.) is a professor of electrical engineering, entrepreneur, and Libyan politician from the city of Sabratha. He was named Libya's interim Prime Minister by the country's National Transitional Council on 31 October 2011.

Career

El-Keib 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, 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, 1999–2001. In 2006 he left Alabama to chair the EE Department 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 the summer of 2011). He has supervised many M.Sc. theses and Ph.D. dissertations on "capacitive compensation planning and operation for primary distribution feeders" and is the recipient of several teaching and research awards.

El-Keib's research in the area of Electrical Power Engineering and is an author of numerous research papers. His research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the United States Department of Energy (US DoE), Southern Company Services (SC), and Alabama Power Company (APCO). He has published numerous papers and research reports and a book chapter. His work on Emissions Constrained Dispatch and VoltlVar compensation on primary distribution feeders has been implemented by several companies in the US. He also served as a consultant to several industries including Alabama Power Company and Southern Company Services.

He served as a member of the Board of Directors, the Arab Science and Technology Foundation, 2001–2007, 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, and 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).

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

Earlier political career; personal life

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 Sabratha – a coastal town 70 kilometers (45 miles) westward from Tripoli – during his exile, El-Keib would meet his family, who remained in Libya, during excursions to Morocco. A devout Muslim, El-Keib helped lead the Islamic community during his two decades in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and became involved in informal, inter-faith dialogue after the 9-11 attacks.