Mustafa Abushagur
The new deputy prime minister of Libya is the president of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Dubai campus.

Mustafa Abushagur was named to the position overnight, RIT spokesman Bob Finnerty said Wednesday.
Abushagur, a native of Libya, lived in Brighton when he taught engineering at the RIT Henrietta campus. He was on Libya’s “Most Wanted” list, having opposed Moammar Gadhafi, and until this fall had not been back in 32 years.
He will leave his RIT post Dec. 1. Abushagur plans to spend at least eight months in Libya helping to rebuild the government, after which he will return to RIT Dubai. An interim leadership plan is in place at the campus.
“Obviously, all this happened fast,” Finnerty said of the collapse of the Gadhafi regime and Abushagur being called into service. But Finnerty added that Abushagur “had full support from the university to go ahead and do this.”
RIT also has campuses in Croatia and Kosovo and has helped rebuild infrastructure in those nations.

“Libya now is in the stage of moving from the revolution to building a nation,” Abushagur said in a statement. “The country is calling upon its entire people to join hands and come together to build the nation that tens of thousands of its people gave their lives for its liberty.”
Abushagur is the founding president of RIT Dubai, established in 2008. He has been with RIT since 2002, and led the development of a doctoral program in microsystems engineering here, the world’s first. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20111124/NEWS01/111240311/Rochester-Institute-Technology-Abushagur-Libya-RIT