Shukri Ghanem

Shukri Mohammed Imhemed Ghanem
شكري محمد إمحمد غانم
Ghanem in 2010
Minister of Oil
In office 1 March 2006 – 16 May 2011
Preceded by	Fathi Ben Shatwan
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Prime Minister of Libya
In office 14 June 2003 – 5 March 2006
Leader	Muammar Gaddafi
Preceded by	Imbarek Shamekh
Succeeded by	Baghdadi Mahmudi
Personal details
Born	(1942-10-09)9 October 1942 Tripoli, Italian Libya
Died	29 April 2012(2012-04-29) (aged 69) Vienna, Austria
Alma mater	Garyounis University Tufts University

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem (Arabic: شكري محمد إمحمد غانم 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya (prime minister) from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi. Ghanem subsequently served as the Minister of Oil until 2011. On 29 April 2012, his body was found floating on the New Danube, Vienna.^[1][2]

Early in the Libyan Civil War he reportedly "fled",^[3] but after the city of Ra's Lanuf was recaptured by pro-government forces, AP reported on 13 March that he asked Eni SpA for help with putting out a fire at the Ra's Lanuf Refinery.^[4] On 16 May, Al Arabiya and the NTC reported that Shukri Ghanem defected to Tunisia. The next day Tunisian security officials confirmed he had indeed defected into Tunisia.^[5]