Based on interviews with young Libyan professionals carried out between 2017 and 2018, this paper examines their role as agenda-setters in international organizations operating in their country since 2011. The growing foreign demand for local expertise after the fall of the old regime was met mostly by the young activists who had helped organize the 2011 uprisings. For foreign organizations, Libyan youth have come to embody brokers, fixers, go-betweens, and persons-in-between, becoming key supporting actors in international project implementation. Despite the opportunities seemingly afforded by the collapse of the old regime, this paper shows that Libyan youth, torn between desires for political change and professional advancement, have struggled to influence the agendas of international organizations, leading to feelings of disenfranchisement. The transformative capacity of international projects is thus often limited by this new class of young, globalized elites who are disengaged from the local needs and realities facing Libyan civil society.

根据2017年至2018年间对年轻的利比亚专业人士的采访，本文考察了自2011年以来他们在本国开展业务的国际组织中作为议程制定者的角色。旧政权垮台后，外国对本地专业知识的需求不断增长由协助组织2011年起义的年轻激进分子组成。对于外国组织来说，利比亚青年已经成为经纪人，固定人，中间人和中间人的代表，成为国际项目实施中的关键支持者。尽管旧政权的崩溃似乎提供了机会，但本文显示，利比亚青年陷入政治变革和专业发展的渴望之间，他们努力影响国际组织的议程，导致被剥夺权利的感觉。