Nagia Essayed is a

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

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. Essayed was Commissioner for Human Resources, Science, and Technology for the

African Union The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. The b ...

from March 2004 to February 2008.

Education

Essayed obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the

University of Tripoli The University of Tripoli (UOT) (Arabic: جامعة طرابلس), is the largest university in Libya and is located in the capital city of Tripoli. It was founded in 1957 as a branch of the University of Libya before it was divided in 1973 to ...

. She graduated from the

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in England with a Master's degree in civic design in 1970 and with a doctorate in housing and urban design at the University of Liverpool in 1981.

Lecturer and African Union Commissioner

Essayed started her academic career in 1972 at the

as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. She left her position and served as Assistant Professor and Head of the Urban Planning Department at the University of Garyounis in Benghazi before returning to the University of Tripoli (at the time renamed al-Fateh University) in 1998 as a professor of Housing. Concurrently, from 1972 to 1996. From March 2004 to February 2028, Essayed was Commissioner for Human Resources, Science, and Technology for the

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