Dr. Abd-al-Hafid Mahmud al-Zulaytini ( ar, عبد الحفيظ محمود الزليطني; 1938 – 12 November 2021) was a Libyan

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who served as Assistant Secretary of the

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(

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) prior to the

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Background

In late 2001, Zulaytini took over from Ahmad Abdel Karim Ahmad as acting chairman of the governing council for state-owned

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(NOC), becoming the top man in the

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sector in Libya. Ahmad had been chairman since 1 October 2000 and was relatively a new figure promoted by someone close to Gaddafi. He had taken over from Abdallah Salem el-Badri. Zulaytini was appointed NOC chairman in January 2002, with specific directions to work on attracting foreign investment into Libya. On 23 February 2007, the Libyan General People's Congress passed a

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appointing a new cabinet led by

Baghdadi Mahmudi Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi ( ar, البغدادي علي المحمودي) (born 1945) is a Libyan politician who was Secretary of the General People's Committee (prime minister) of Libya from 5 March 2006 to as late as 1 September 2011, when he acknowl ...

, the current

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and a new deputy, al-Zulaytini.

Other activities

Al-Zulaytini was also deputy chairman for the Libyan Investment Corporation (LIC), which was established in early 2007 as a

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with a mandate to manage and restructure state enterprises, such as the Fund for Africa and the Economic and Social Development Fund. Board members include Planning Secretary Taher Al-Jehaimi,

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Muhammad al-Huwayj, and Farhat Bengdara, who is governor of the

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. LIC's President and CEO is Muhammad Layas who previously chaired the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank (LAFB). He was

from 2009 to 2011. Zulaytini was also the chairman of Al Masraf, a

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in the

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.''UAE: Masraf plans retail push'', Emirates Today, 8 September 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zulaytini, Abd-al-Hafid Mahmud al- 1938 births 2021 deaths Members of the General People's Committee of Libya Education ministers of Libya Finance ministers of Libya Governors of the Central Bank of Libya People from Tripoli, Libya

Background

Other activities

See also

References