30 applications to head Central Bank of Libya

By Ahmed Elumami.

Tripoli, 3 September 2013:

Thirty candidates have been nominated for the governorship and deputy governorship of the Central Bank of Libya.  Among those proposed as governor are Ali Tarhouni, the economy minister in the first post revolution administration led by Mahmoud Jebril under the National Transitional Council.

“Sixteen candidates are competing for the governor position and 14 for the deputy position,” Congress Finance Committee member Suaad Qdairi told the Libya Herald.

She said that a shortlist of three candidates for each of the two posts would be drawn up by the committee. It would start meeting them from tomorrow. The final appointment would be announced next week.

The committee had determined basic legal standards and as well as a number of additional ones, Qdairi said, explaining that candidates should have a Masters Degree in economics or financial management, banking experience of not less than 25 years and “a deep understanding of the banking business to meet the basic standards”.

Candidates should not have foreign nationality, she stressed. They should also be well versed in both international banking business and Islamic banking practice.

She claimed that the decision to replace the current governor and his deputy was because financial and administrative corruption.

The candidates for the new CBL governor are:

1. Ali Omar Ewrrhouma
2. Murad Buzuaq
3. Mohamed Mosadeq Al-Alaqi
4. Said Mohmed Al-Attrash
5. Abdulfatah Abdulsalam Bu Habbail
6. Mohassen Ali Eddraija
7. Ali Mohamed Al-Majbari
8. Jamal Al-Tayab Abdulmalek (Governor of the Commercial and Development Bank)
9. Ahmed Mohamed Rajab
10. Ibrahim Omar Al-Haddad
11. Mostafa Saleh Al-Saidi
12. Omar Abdulnabi Omar Belqasem
13. Mahmoud Al-Hadi Ehmouda
14. Al-Mabrouk Mohamed Al-Zawi
15. Ali Tarhouni (Economy Minister under the NTC)
16. Abdulhameed Abdulkareem Al-Sheikhi

The candidates for the new CBL deputy are:

1. Mohamed Younes Al-Warrfli
2. Ahmed Abdulsalam Al-Shukri
3. Al-Mabrouk Al-Shebani
4. Sameer Saad Al-Fawal
5. Iddrees Mohamed Al-Ahaimer
6. Omar Yakhlef Al-Haj
7. Al-Sadeq Hassain Ghaith
8. Ahmed Omar Tarrhouni
9. Issam-Addin Salem Alaq
10. Al-Hadi Ali Muftah Iddrees
11. Mustafa Ali Abu Hmaira
12. Ahmed Salem Ahmed Abdulmoula
13. Ali Ramadan Eshnaibesh
14. Abdulsalam Salem Al-Herma

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