Libya Votes in New Prime Minister Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb

Source: International Business Times

October 31, 2011

Libya has named Abdel-Rahim al-Keeb as the country's new Prime Minster.

Working to quickly begin the country's new, post-Moammar Gadhafi era, Libya's interim government, the National Transitional Council, elected Keeb on Monday. Keeb, an electronics engineer from Tripoli, received 26 of 51 council votes, and will appoint the rest of his cabinet in the coming days, according to The Associated Press.

Keeb will run the country as Libya prepares for the yet-to-be scheduled general elections.

Since the conflict in Libya began, the NTC has stated that they will cede their power as soon as the revolution was over.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/240718/20111031/libya-new-prime-minister-abdel-rahim-keeb.htm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Rahim_al-Kib

Abdel Rahim al-Kib (Arabic عبد الرحيم الكيب) is an electronics engineer and Libyan politician. He was named as Libya's new interim Prime Minister by the country's National Transitional Council on 31 October 2011.

Dr. Abdel Rahim al-Kib joined The University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1985 and became Professor in 1996. He has taught at The University of Tripoli, North Carolina State University, The University of Alabama, the American University of Sharjah, and recently at The Petroleum Institute in UAE. He supervised many MSc Theses and PhD Dissertations and is recipient of several teaching and research awards.

Dr. al-Kib'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 US 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).

While on leave from The University of Alabama, he spent two years (1999-2001) at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He served as the Director of the Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering. Together with his colleagues on the faculty, they built the Division and achieved the UAE national accreditation for it. While serving as Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at The Petroleum Institute, he served and/or chaired a number of important committees and led the effort of development and accreditation of the electrical engineering undergraduate and graduate programs, and the PI Master of Science program. During the period 2007-09, he coordinated the PI Graduate Program and initiated and chaired the PI Graduate Council. He also coordinated the development of the PI e-Learning System to deliver PI graduate courses.

http://www.pi.ac.ae/PI_ACA/ee/faculty_staff/aelkeib.php


HONORS AND AWARDS

* Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award “For Leadership and Excellence in Power Engineering Research, Outstanding Contributions to the Power and Energy Education, and Dedicated Service to the Engineering Profession,” IEEE/PES UAE Chapter, 2009.
* Awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the President of the IEEE/PES issued by the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Energy Development and Power Generation Committee “in Recognition of Distinguished Service to the Energy Development and Power Generation Committee …,” at the General Meeting in Calgary, Canada, July 2009.”
* Member, Board of Directors, the Arab Science and Technology Foundation, 2001-2007.
* Associate Editor, the IEEE/PES Power Engineering Letters, 1992-2000.
* Associate Editor, World Science and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Transactions on Power Systems.
* Member, Editorial Advisory Board, the Korean Institute of electrical Engineers (KIEE)/Society of Power Engineering.
* Member of the Science and Technology Panel, the Islamic Development Bank IDB.
* Merit Scholarship, PhD, MSc, and BSc.
* Recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Instructor Award, The University of Alabama.
* Nominee for
* The University of Alabama Alumni Award for Outstanding Commitment to Teaching, 2004-05.
* Excellence in Service Award, American University of Sharjah, 2001.
* T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership Award in the College of Engineering; The University of Alabama, 1997, 1998.
* College of Engineering Nominee for The University of Alabama's 1991-92 Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Scholarship.
* NSF Engineering Research Initiation Award, 1989-1990.
* First Place Award, 1996 Technical Paper Prize Competition, Alabama Section of IEEE for the paper, "Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Voltage Stability Assessment," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 10, November 1995, pp. 1890-1896.
* Third Place Award, 1986 Technical Paper Prize Competition, Alabama Section of IEEE for "Placement of Fixed and/or Non-Simultaneously Switched Capacitors on Unbalanced Three-phase Feeders Involving Laterals," IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. 104, November 1985.
* Member the following Honors societies:
o Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars), President-elect, 2001-02, The University of Alabama.
o Eta Kappa Nu (Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineers).
o Sigma Xi (Honor Society for Research).

Selected Refereed Publications:

* A.A. El-Keib, I. Sadek, (Editors), Special issue on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 206, Issue 2, December 2008.
* A. A. El-Keib, (Editor), Proceedings of the 2007 Modeling, Simulations, and Applied Optimization, March 2007.
* L. Wu, J. Park, J. Choi, A. A. EI-Keib, “Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation of Power Systems Including Wind Turbine Generators Considering Wind Speed Correlation,” KIEE JEET International Transactions. (to appear).
* J. Park, W. Liang, J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, "Probabilistic Production Cost Credit Evaluation of Wind Turbine Generators,'' The International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), Vol.5, No.12, December 2009.
* J. Kwon, J. Choi, T. Tran, A. El-Keib, J. Watada, “Emissions constrained multi-criteria-best generation mix using fuzzy dynamic programming,” International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 41-52, 2007.
* J. Park, J. Choi, D. Jeon, A. A. El-Keib, J. Mitra, Roy Billinton, Grid Expansion Planning considering Probabilistic Production and Congestion Costs Based on Nodal Effective Load Model, The 2010 IEEE/PES T&D, April 19-22, 2010, New Orleans.
* J. Park, W. Liang, J. Choi, A.A. El-Keib, M. Shahidehpour, “Transmission System Expansion Planning by Nodal Delivery Marginal Rate Criterion,” Proceedings 2009 IEEE/PES Asia T & D, Seoul, Korea, October 26-30, 2009.
* J. Choi, J. Park, L. Wu, J. Cha, A. A. El-Keib, W. Junzo, “Fuzzy Theory-Based Best Generation Mix Considering Renewable Energy Generators,” Proceedings, The IEEE 2009 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2009), ICC Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, August 20-24, 2009.
* N. S. Sisworahardjo; A. A. El-Keib; M. Alam, “Least-squares Polynomial Approximation for Short-term Generation Unit Asset Valuation,” Proceedings, The IEEE/PES 2009 Power Systems Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, March 15-18, 2009.
* M. El-Sharkh; A. Rahman; M. Alam; A. A. El-Keib, “Thermal Energy Management of a CHP Hybrid of Wind and a Grid-Parallel PEM Fuel Cell Power Plant,” Proceedings, The IEEE/PES 2009 Power Systems Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, March 15-18, 2009.
* J. Park, Wu Liang, J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, M. Shahidehpour, Roy Billinton “A Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation of Power System Including Solar/Photovoltaic Cell Generators,” Proceedings, The IEEE/PES General Meeting, 26 - 30 July, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
* L. Wu, J. Park, J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, M. Shahidehpour, Roy Billinton, “Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation of Power Systems Including Wind Turbine Generators Using a Simplified Multi-State Model: A Case Study,” Proceedings, The IEEE/PES General Meeting, 26 - 30 July, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
* J. Park, L. Wu, J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, “A Basic Study on the Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation of Power System Considering Solar/Photovoltaic Cell Generator,” The KIEE/PES Meeting, Jeju Island, Nov 7-8, 2008.
* S. Jeong, J. Choi, J. Kim, Y. Lee, A.A. El-Keib, and M. Shahidehpour, “Flexible Best Generation Mix for Korea Power System Considering CO2 Constraint – Vision 2030,” Proceedings, IEEE/PES GM, July 20-24, 2008, pp.1- 6.
* B. Shi, S. Jeong, J. Park, J. Choi, B. Jang, Y. Yun, K. Han, A.A El-Keib & R. Billinton, "Area annual outage cost assessment of KEPCO system,” in 2007 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering, Montreal, Canada, October 10-12, 2007.
* A.A. El-Keib, J. Choi, T. Tran, 'Intelligent System Application for Transmission Expansion Planning,' the Power System Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2006. (Invited)
* N. S. Sisworahardjo, A. A. El-Keib, M. S. Alam, "An Improved Stochastic Load Model for Industrial Power Market," Proceedings IEEE / IAS, 41st Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, Oct 8 - 12, 2006.
* J. Choi, T. Tran, A.A. El-Keib, R. Thomas, H. Oh, R. Billinton, "A Method for Transmission System Expansion Planning Considering Probabilistic Reliability Criteria," Proceedings, IEEE/PES T&D, Dallas, Texas May, 21-24, 2006.
* J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, T. Tran, R. Thomas, R. Billinton, “A New Method for Transmission System Expansion Planning Considering a Probabilistic Reliability Criteria,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, August 2005, pp. 1606-1615.
* N.S. Sisworahardjo, A. A. El-Keib, “A Stochastic Electricity Demand Model for a Generating Company,” the Electric Power Systems Research Journal. (In print).
* J. Choi, A. A. El-Keib, T. Tran, “A Fuzzy Branch and Bound Transmission System Planning For on Highest Satisfaction Level of Decision Maker,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, February 2005, pp.476-484.
* M. El-Sharkh, A. A. El-Keib, “A Fuzzy Evolutionary Programming-based Technique for Maintenance Scheduling of Power Generation and Transmission Systems,” IEEE Transaction on Power Systems, May 2003, pp. 862-866.
* J. Carlisle, A.A. El-Keib, “A Graph Search Algorithm for Optimal Placement of Fixed and Switched Capacitors on Radial Distribution Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, January 2000, pp. 423 -428.
* R. Brooks, A.A. El-Keib, “A Life Cycle View of Electricity Futures Contracts,” Journal of Power Finance and Development, Volume 3, pp. 171-183, November 1998. (Invited paper)
* X. Ma, A.A. El-Keib, T. Haskew, “Marginal Cost-Based Pricing of Wheeling Transactions and Independent Power Producers Considering Security Constraints, the Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 48, December 1998.
* J. Nims, A.A. El-Keib, R. Smith, "Contingency Ranking for Voltage Stability Using a Genetic Algorithm," Electric Power Systems Research, 43, October 1997.
* A. El-Keib, X. Ma, "Calculating Short-Run Marginal Costs of Active and Reactive Power Production," IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, Vol. 12, May 1997, pp. 559-565.
* A. El-Keib, X. Ma, "Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Voltage Stability Assessment," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 10, November 1995, pp. 1890-1896.
* A. El-Keib, H. Ma, "Environmentally Constrained Economic Dispatch Using the LaGrangian Relaxation Method," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 9, November 1994, pp. 1723-1729.
* A. El-Keib, H. Ding, D. Maratukulam, "A Parallel Fast Decoupled Load Flow Algorithm," Electric Power Systems Research Journal, Vol. 30, September 1994, pp. 203-208.
* H. Ding, A. A. El-Keib, R. Smith, "Optimal Clustering of Power Networks Using Genetic Algorithms," Electric Power Systems Research Journal, Vol. 30, September 1994, pp. 209-214.
* A. El-Keib, J. Nieplocha, H. Singh, "A Decomposed State Estimation Approach Suitable for Parallel Processor Implementation," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.7, August 1992, pp. 1088-1097.
* A. El-Kib, J. J. Grainger, K. N. Clinard, L. J. Gale, "Placement of Fixed and/or Non-Simultaneously Switched Capacitors on Unbalanced Three-phase Feeders Involving Laterals," IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. 104, November 1985, pp. 3398-3405.
* J. J. Grainger, A. A. El-Kib, S. H. Lee, "Optimal Capacitor Placement on Three-phase Primary Feeders: Load and Feeder Unbalance Effect," IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. 102, October 1983, pp. 3296-3305.
* J. J. Grainger, S. H. Lee, A. A. El-Kib, "Design of a Real-time Switching Control Scheme for Compensation of Distribution Feeders," IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. 101, August 1982, pp. 2420-2428.
* N.S. Sisworahardjo, A. A. El-Keib, “Unit Commitment Using the Ant Colony Search Algorithm,” Proceedings, the 2002 Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering, LESCOPE’02, 2002, pp. 2-6.
* A. El-Keib, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. G. Mastoras, B. Shattuck, "Optimized Planning of Electrical Power Distribution Systems," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Power High Tech '88, April 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 184-187.
* H. Ma, A. A. El-Keib, X. Ma, "Training Data Sensitivity Problem of Artificial Neural Network-Based Power System Load Forecasting," Proceedings of the 26th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, Athens, Ohio, March 1994, pp. 650-652.

Doesn't look on paper to be a brutal thug. Let's hope not.

NTC official Mustafa al-Mana said 52 members of the council had been asked to choose from five remaining candidates after the withdrawal of five others, including NTC vice president Abdel Hafez Ghoka.

Among the other main candidates were interim oil minister Ali Tarhuni and Idriss Abu Fayed, former opponent of Muammar Gaddafi who had been jailed under the ousted dictator's regime, and Ali Zidan, an NTC representative in Europe.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/academic-elected-to-head-libya-govt-20111101-1msp8.html




Many had predicted Ali Tarhouni, the relatively popular and high-profile finance minister, would be chosen as premier. However, Mr Keeb beat other contenders with 26 out of 51 votes, according to the AFP news agency.

Mr Keeb is relatively low-profile even among the obscure leadership of the interim government. Officials said he previously served as the Tripoli representative to the transitional government and as a member of the stabilisation team that attempted to restore services in western Libya following the collapse of Col Muammer Gaddafi’s regime in August.

His obscurity may have helped propel him to victory among colleagues concerned about the emergence of a charismatic autocrat. But it could also further embolden the various militias that have established power bases throughout western Libya and which often decline to abide by central government decisions.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9607ffa-03f9-11e1-864e-00144feabdc0.html

"Libya" has done no such thing. The TNC is no more "Libya" than Qaddafi was.

The people have not had a chance to speak, and although this is a seemingly somewhat reasonable approach to yet another interim government, it hasn't any legitimacy whatsoever, and certainly cannot be honestly depicted as the will of the Libyan people.

Titles mean something. Many people never see anything more than them.

Meanwhile, the armed rivalries heat up.

Hey, as long as the oil production and distribution isn't obstructed, what's the problem?

...of Libya than Gaddafi's mob state, that's for damn sure.

Hopefully you won't react this way when the referendum happens, saying such nonsense as "NATO killed all the Libyan's" or something.

I still don't like headlines that claim that "Libya" endorses something.

Surely you agree with that, don't you?

"Libya" hasn't voted or endorsed a damned thing.

My agendum is quite clear: interfering with internal affairs of a sovereign nation should not happen unless truly cataclysmic events are in the offing. I still contend that no such peril existed.

The forthcoming events are fully the responsibility of the interventionists.

To truly honor the Libyans, one should ONLY honor those determinations made by the inhabitants themselves. Outside influence is playing a serious hand here.

Its stated aim is to act as an interim government and hold elections for a Public National Conference to replace it. The PNC will elect a Prime Minister and draft a constitution within 60 days which will be ratified by referendum. After that, free elections will be held for a representative government. All this is set down in the Libyan Interim Constitutional Declaration, which was drafted together with help from the UN, the US and the UK.

Gadaffi slaughtering rats is not.

...do NOT equal a "cataclysm".

Qaddafi did NOT state that he was going to mow down civilians, and even offered amnesty to armed rebels who laid down their arms. After retaking Brega and Ajdabia, there were no exterminations, and these events happened before the intervention.

There were little more than a hundred deaths before the intervention, and I cannot find any reference to ANY demonstration that resulted in protester deaths that didn't have at least some armed participants or arson of public buildings, so it wasn't a case of wholesale slaughter of flower children chanting slogans.

I'm not a Qaddafi fan, and he certainly ruled with intolerance to any dissent, but he was also NOT the butcher he's often depicted to have been in such broad terms.

It's sickening and outrageous to hear interventionists continually carping on the potential "hundreds of thousands" of deaths as if they actually happened. They didn't. There was no verbal threat of them happening, and analogous events transpired with nothing of the sort happening.

Now, we have REAL deaths. We have real ethnic cleansing of blacks. We have all sorts of scores that may or may not be settled.

My principal frustration remains the violation of national sovereignty, the OBVIOUS cynical resource grab, and the sheer imperial illegality of the whole affair.

Balancing REAL deaths with hypothetical ones is sheer arrogance.

You can stew about it all you like. The people of Libya have their freedom. They don't care what you think. If anything, they're angry with the U.S. for not acting sooner.

They have not had time to implement a nationwide vote.. this is best they can do under the circumstances. Furthermore the man sounds very impressive and clearly not some lunatic islamist fundy who hates America.

You naysayers are running out of things to complain about.

TRIPOLI—Libya’s leaders on Monday elected a U.S.-educated engineering professor to serve as prime minister during the critical postwar period, in which the country will try to create an army out of hundreds of ragtag militias and launch its first democratic elections.

Abdurraheem el-Keib, a dual U.S.-Libyan citizen, was chosen by members of the Transitional National Council who deposited ballots into a transparent box. The televised session was a stark sign of the change from the 42-year dictatorship of Moammar Gaddafi.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/nato-formally-ends-libya-bombing-campaign/2011/10/31/gIQAtiObZM_story.html

... has been "chosen" by "Libya" to be their new Prime Minister.
How nice.




A US Military C-17 photographed at the airport in Tripoli October 29, 2011



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