Ms. Carole Horeczky, Associate Director in the Policy Department at the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA), recently visited the College of Public Policy at HBKU to speak to students in the Specialization Lab course.

The College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), signed an agreement with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) to advance strategic priorities in scientific research, education, and student exchanges. 

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) co-hosted the eighth Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium online from November 1-4. 

The College of Public Policy (CPP) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Qatar and the State of Kuwait, held a virtual expert panel discussion titled ‘Towards climate neutrality: How is the EU driving global action?’ to highlight the EU’s measures and best practices to mitigate climate change. 

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and ties with the Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta, Indonesia. 

Dr. Leslie A. Pal, founding dean at the College of Public Policy (CPP), was part of a site visit team in Dubai recently to review the bid submitted by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG) to hold the sixth International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) in 2023. Dr. Pal serves as the vice-president of the International Public Policy Association (IPPA), the sponsor of ICPP, and joined Dr. Grace Skogstad, president, IPPA, Dr. Marleen Brans, treasurer, and Dr.

Associate professor at Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Public Policy (CPP), Dr. Logan Cochrane, has been appointed by the United Nations as a member of the newly constituted Knowledge Network of African Experts.

The network comes under the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), and Dr. Cochrane is currently leading a sub-group focusing on food security who are preparing a policy brief as a contribution to the forthcoming UN Summit on famine prevention.

Hamad International Airport (HIA) has announced a joint research partnership with Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE) to enhance passenger services. This first-of-its-kind research partnership in Qatar will utilize the Visual Analytics and Dynamic Graph research techniques and identify ways to enhance the passenger airport experience.

Giving youth the opportunity to learn from the country’s brightest change-makers, the Qatar Youth Power (QYP) Conference took place virtually from June 10-11, in partnership with Maker Majlis - a platform under the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). The country’s first and only student-initiated conference aimed to develop, connect, and empower the youth of Qatar to positively impact their communities. 

The Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of The Cyprus Institute (CyI), have signed a collaboration agreement to estimate and predict contamination risks and associated impacts from the atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides accidentally released by a major industrial facility in the Middle East.