Abdurrahim El-Keib
| Abdurrahim El-Keib عبد الرحيم الكيب |
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Prime Minister of Libya Acting |
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In office 24 November 2011 – 14 November 2012 |
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil Mohammed Ali Salim (Acting) Mohammed Magariaf |
| Deputy | Mustafa Abushagur |
| Preceded by | Ali Tarhouni (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ali Zeidan |
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| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Tripoli, British Administration of Tripolitania (now Libya) |
| Political party | Independent |
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University of Tripoli University of Southern California North Carolina State University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Abdurrahim Abdulhafiz El-Keib, PhD, (Arabic عبد الرحيم عبد الحفيظ الكيب; also transcribed Abdel Rahim AlKeeb, Abdul Raheem Al-Keeb, etc.; born 1950) is 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.
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 excursions to Tunis, Morocco, and elsewhere.
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 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, 1999–2001. 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 has supervised many M.Sc. theses and PhD dissertations on "capacitive compensation planning and operation for primary distribution feeders" and is the recipient of several teaching and research awards.
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