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Ali Tarhouni

Ali Tarhouni
علي الترهوني
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President of the Constituent Assembly of Libya
Assumed office
22 April 2014
Prime Minister of Libya
Acting
In office
23 October 2011 – 24 November 2011
President Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Preceded by Mahmoud Jibril
Succeeded by Abdurrahim El-Keib
Chairman of National Centrist Party
Assumed office
27 February 2012
Preceded by Office established
Deputy Prime Minister of Libya
In office
2 October 2011 – 23 October 2011
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril
Preceded by Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi
Succeeded by Mustafa Abushagur
Minister of Finance
In office
23 March 2011 – 22 November 2011
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril
Abdurrahim El-Keib
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Hassan Ziglam
Minister of Oil
In office
23 March 2011 – 22 November 2011
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril
Abdurrahim El-Keib
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Abdulrahman Ben Yezza
Personal details
Born 1951 (age 65–66)
Marj, Cyrenaica (now Libya)
Political party National Centrist Party
Alma mater University of Libya
Michigan State University
Religion Sunni Islam

Ali Abdussalam Tarhouni (Arabic علي الترهوني) (born 1951) is a Libyan economist and politician. Tarhouni served as the minister for oil and finance on the National Transitional Council, the provisional governing authority in Libya, from 23 March to 22 November 2011. He acted in the capacity of interim prime minister of Libya during the departure of outgoing incumbent Mahmoud Jibril from 23 October 2011 until Abdurrahim El-Keib was formally named to succeed Jibril on 31 October.

Born in Libya, Tarhouni studied economics at the University of Libya, until fleeing the country in 1973. He was stripped of citizenship, sentenced to death in absentia, and put on a government hit list in 1981. After immigrating to the United States, Tarhouni continued his studies, earning a master's degree (1978) and a Ph.D. (1983) from Michigan State University. From 1985 up until the outbreak of the Libyan revolution, he had been a popular senior lecturer in business economics at the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business where he won numerous teaching awards.

Tarhouni was named to head both the oil and finance ministries of the National Transitional Council, an opposition council formed to coordinate anti-Gaddafi elements during the Libyan Civil War in March 2011. He acted as a frequent spokesman for the council and wielded considerable influence as a prominent liberal in the opposition. He officially announced the transfer of the NTC from Benghazi to Tripoli on 25 August 2011.

On 3 September 2011, Tarhouni, acting as deputy chairman of the NTC's executive board, announced he was also chairman of a Supreme Security Committee, responsible for all security matters in Tripoli.


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