Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya's newly elected interim prime minister, is a wealthy businessman and Canada-educated engineer close to Turkey tasked with uniting the war-riddled country ahead of elections in December. And yet Dbeibah once led the state-run Libyan Investment and Development Company (LIDCO) under the dictator who was slain by Misrata fighters in 2011. During Kadhafi's rule, Misrata, Libya's third city, underwent an industrial and economic boom from which the Dbeibah family and many others profited. Married and the father of six children, Dbeibah holds a masters degree from the University of Toronto in engineering. Challenges aheadAfter the 2011 revolution, Dbeibah took his first tentative steps in politics and founded the Libya al-Mostakbal (Future) movement.

Source: Libya Today February 06, 2021 14:15 UTC