- Baghdadi Mahmudi
Infobox Prime Minister
name = al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi
البغدادي علي المحمودي
honorific-suffix =
MD
order = Prime Minister of Libya
leader =Muammar al-Gaddafi
president = Muhammad al-ZanatiMiftah Muhammed K'eba
term_start =05 March 2006
predecessor =Shukri Ghanem
birth_date = 1945al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi ( _ar. البغدادي علي المحمودي )(born 1945?) was appointed General Secretary of the
General People's Committee (prime minister ) ofLibya on5 March ,2006 in succession toShukri Ghanem . He has a medical degree and is specialised in obstetrics and gynecology.Background
Mahmudi served as deputy prime minister from June 2003 to March 2006 when he was appointed to head the Libyan government. Before serving as deputy Prime Minister he was the Health Minister.
Infrastructure projects
As deputy secretary-general of Libya's "General People's Committee for Production Affairs", he oversaw the development of the two large infrastructure projects in Libya:
*Great man-made river project, and
*Railways projectThe three-phase river project alone is estimated to total more than US$18.5 billion.Cost/benefit
Dr Mahmudi answered questions about the cost and benefit of the projects, as follows::"We would like to focus very much in investment projects using this water, basically agriculture and animal stock projects. For this sector it has been allocated already a high percentage of the development funds. For this reason, we are concluding several agreements with foreign companies that are interested in investing in these projects, like for example in the
Benghazi plains."External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4777332.stm Libya's reforming premier sacked]
* [http://www.winne.com/mena/libya/report/2004/cr08.php World Investment News]ee also
*
List of heads of government of Libya
*List of state leaders
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