Ahmed al-Jehani

Position: Reconstruction and Infrastructure Minister, Libya

Biography: Ahmed al-Jehani is a Harvard-educated lawyer who has held technical positions at oil companies. In May, he was appointed as the NTC’s Reconstruction and Infrastructure Minister.

Al-Jehani was born in Benghazi in 1946 and until 2011, was the managing director of his own international trade, investment, finance and arbitration consultancy called Jehan Integration.

Between 2007 and 2008, he was the associate director general of the Libyan Economic Development Board, a position he took up after more than three decades of working at the World Bank, where he was senior adviser to the board of directors between 2005 and 2007. At the World Bank, Al-Jehani was a negotiator and policy adviser for energy and mining, for the group designing the bank’s work in the financial sectors of member countries.

Contact Email: info@nctlibya.org