CPP recently held a launch event for a new book titled How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy (Yale University Press), co-authored by Dr. Wolfgang Drechsler, CPP Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Value. 

The College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU Law) recently teamed up with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BICCL) to launch a new book, International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-edited by  HBKU Law’s Georgios Dimitropoulos, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and

Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), recently published papers in two prestigious scientific journals identifying research findings on gene regulation in human cancers and a novel tumor classification method that may lead to tailored treatment for triple negative breast cancer.

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), is playing a pivotal role in supporting the operations of the 800MWp Al Kharsaah Solar Power Plant, initially inaugurated on October 18. 

Maker Majlis, a platform under the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), highlighted positive football rolemodels during its educational workshop on ‘Football and Global Inequalities’, delivered at the Generation Amazing Youth Festival 2022. 

The Organizing Committee of the Ninth Edition of the GCC Sports Tournament for Universities and Higher Education Institutes, headed by Dr. Maryam Bint Hamad Al-Mannai, Vice President of Student Affairs at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and Committee President of the Tournament, announced that 22 universities and educational institutes from across the GCC have confirmed their participation. The tournament is scheduled to be held from February 4 – 10, 2023. 

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) scientists and faculty made notable contributions as part of the Qatar Foundation (QF) delegation attending the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt. HBKU had a presence in the Qatar Pavilion, hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) in the Blue Zone. 

The College of Public Policy (CPP) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) held its inaugural research conference, ‘Evaluation in the Global South: Looking to the Future’, on November 7 and 8. Featuring more than 50 speakers from over 30 countries and 16 partners, the conference sought to provide an interdisciplinary audience with cross-country learning to enable them to better understand evaluation in different nations and different sectors across the global south. Over 200 participants joined in the discussions over the two days.

The Qur’anic Botanic Garden (QBG), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), is hosting a program of entertaining and educational activities to celebrate and leverage the FIFA World Cup 2022 to promote its agenda of environmental protection and sustainable development in line with Qatar National Vision 2030.

Dr. Markus Gehring of the University of Cambridge spent a week at HBKU’s College of Law, in late September 2022, to teach electricity law as part of the college’s ‘Energy Law’ course. The college has been fortunate to have Dr. Gehring in the community since 2017. In this video, Dr. Gehring sits down with the college Dean, Dr. Susan Karamanian, to speak about his work and time at the College of Law.