Baghdadi Mahmudi

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al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi

Prime Minister of Libya
In office 5 March 2006 – Present
Preceded by	Shukri Ghanem

Born	1945

al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi (Arabic: البغدادي علي المحمودي )(born 1945?) was appointed General Secretary of the General People's Congress (prime minister) of Libya on 5 March, 2006 in succession to Shukri Ghanem. He has a Ph.D degree.

1 Background
2 Infrastructure projects
3 Cost/benefit
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 project

The three-phase river project alone is estimated to total more than US$18.5 billion.

[edit] 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."