Abu Bakr Mustaffa Baira ( ar, أبوبكر مصطفى بعيرة) (born July 21, 1941) is a
Libya
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n politician who was the Acting President of the
House of Representatives
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(also known as the Libyan House of Representatives-HoR ar, مجلس النواب, links=no) of
Libya
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, a role he held as the oldest member of Libya's legislature until
Aguila Saleh Issa
Aguila Saleh Issa ( ar, عقيلة صالح عيسى; born January 11, 1944) is a Libyan jurist and politician who is the Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives since 5 August 2014. He is also a representative of the town of Al Qubbah, in ...
was appointed permanent chair.
Biography
Baira became a professor of Management and Marketing at the
American University of Nigeria
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(ABTI) as well as a senate member of the same university in
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. He is a former candidate as Prime Minister of Government of National Accord-GNA in Libya (Presidential Council of Libya).
Work
Baira has been Chairman of the Management Department in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the
University of Benghazi
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(Garyonis) from 1975 to 1982. From 1982 on, he was the professor of management at this university. He also served in a number of board memberships in different Libyan major organizations.
He was Senior Management Advisor and Head of Research and Studies Dept at the Arab Organization for Administrative Sciences in
Amman
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Arab League
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) from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1985, Buera was dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the
Garyonis University. Later, from 1985 to 1987 he was dean at the Higher Institute for Administrative Sciences in Libya; and again in 1991. He served as training director at the Arab Organization for Administrative Development from 1987 to 1991 and as director general at the Manpower Information Centre in Libya in 1999.
He was elected as a member of the Academic Promotions Committee within the College of Commerce & Economics at
Sultan Qaboos University
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(SQU in
Oman
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) in 2003, as well as a member of the College Board at the same college from 2003 to 2005.
Baira served as MP (elected) in the Libyan House of Representatives-HoR, from August 2014. He was a founding member (elected) of the ''Libyan political dialogue'' (Libyan Political Agreement) in Skhirat but he resigned in October 2015 due to breaking the original (fourth) draft of the Libyan Political agreement (agreed at the
UN General Assembly
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September 2015 in
New York
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Publications
* ''Principles of Management'', 6th edition, (Banghazi: University of Garyonis, 2011)
* ''Principles of Marketing'' (Banghazi: University of Garyonis, 1991)
* ''Multinational Management'', 2nd edition, (Tripoli: The Open University, 1999)
* ''Modernizing University Administration'' (Amman: Union of Arab Universities, 1990); a co-authored mimeograph
* ''Training Needs Assessment Guide'' (Benghazi: Higher Institute for Administrative Sciences, 1992)
* ''Democratic Management: A Comparative Approach'' (Tripoli: National Institute of Administration, 1988)
* ''Management Encyclopedia'' (Benghazi: University of Benghazi/Garyounis, 1990)
* ''Administrative Control'' (Amman: Arab Organization for Administrative Sciences, 1993)
* ''International Business in the Middle East'' (London: Croom Helms Publishers, 1986); co-author.
* ''Management Elites: A Comparative Approach'' (Tripoli: Arab Development Institute, 1982)
* ''The Administrative Development policy in Libya : A Macro Approach'' (Chapter in book) in : Public Policy in Libya, Proceedings of the first national conference on public policies in Libya, Center for Research and Consultation, University of Benghazi, Libya, 2009
References
The Huffington Post: "The Right Leaders Are Libya's Best Hope for Stability"Wiley, International Business Review, The Need Satisfactions of Managers in Libya. Abubakr Buera, professor, University of Benghazi, Libya, Research Roundup William F. Glueck, University of GeorgiaGoogle Scholar: Abubakr BueraAdministration and Development in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography : Abubakr Buera
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1941 births
Heads of state of Libya
Living people
University of Benghazi alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Missouri alumni
Members of the House of Representatives (Libya)