Mohammed H. Layas is a prominent

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...

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and

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Education

He obtained a

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degree in

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

and Business Management from the

University of Benghazi University of Benghazi ( ar, جامعة بنغازي), Formally known as Garyounis University, it is a public university in Benghazi, Libya, the country's second-largest city as well as one of the most prestigious. institutes of higher educatio ...

, Libya, and a Diploma of the Institute of Economic Development, in Washington.

Politics

Layas has a long history of involvement in Libyan politics, serving as a foreign

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for Libya before the 1969 ''Al-Fatah'' Revolution which brought

Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

into power. Currently, Mr. Layas is a member of the Libyan governments

General People's Committee The General People's Committee ( ar, اللجنة الشعبية العامة, ''al-lajna ash-sha'biyya al-'āmma''), often abbreviated as the GPCO, was the executive branch of the government of Libya, during the existence of Muammar Gaddafi's L ...

(GPCO) for

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Banking

Layas has served as chairman and General Manager of the

Libyan Arab Foreign Bank Libyan Foreign Bank (LFB) was established in 1972 in Tripoli, Libya as Libyan Arab Foreign Bank; it was renamed Libyan Foreign Bank in 2005. It was Libya's first offshore banking institution licensed to operate internationally. The Central Bank o ...

, the only bank authorized to conduct international banking transactions during sanctions. Additionally, he has been deputy chairman for the British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) in

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until 2004, and the Banque Inter Continentale Arabe, in

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. He was also Director of the Arab International Bank in

Cairo, Egypt Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

– in addition to membership on the boards of several other banks and investment companies. Mr. Layas is Director of

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S.A. in Spain, and he joined the Board of the Bahrain-based

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in 2001: Additionally, since 2006 he has been president and

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of the Libyan Investment Authority.

References

External links

GPCO WebsiteLibyan Foreign Investment BoardLibyan Foreign BankBank of Commerce and DevelopmentAman Bank for Commerce and InvestmentGPCO Websiteاللجنة الشعبية العامة للمالية
{{DEFAULTSORT:Layas, Muhammad Members of the General People's Committee of Libya Libyan bankers Libyan diplomats Living people University of Benghazi alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

Education

Politics

Banking

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