Academic cooperation between the UAEU Center for ‎Public Policy and Leadership and the Lee Kuan Yew ‎School of Public Policy at the National University of ‎Singapore

Within the framework of the efforts of the United Arab ‎Emirates University in supporting vital sectors and ‎strategic directions, the UAEU Center for Public Policy ‎and Leadership is conducting a research cooperation with ‎the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National ‎University of Singapore. It comes within the UAEU ‎strategy in building a network that contributes to ‎supporting the educational and research outputs in the ‎areas of public policy and leadership, which the university ‎is working to support with scientific and technical ‎capabilities to become one of the important scientific and ‎research centers in the region. This cooperation comes ‎within the twining partnership  between the center and the ‎college. ‎

Professor Ahmed Ali Murad, Associate Provost for ‎Research at the university, explained that the university is ‎working to emphasize international cooperation with ‎prestigious research centers in national trends, which ‎enhances the position of the UAEU Center for Public ‎Policy and Leadership regionally and internationally.  Lee ‎Kuan School of Public Policy is one of the largest and most ‎prestigious colleges specialized in public policy in Asia, ‎which in turn will help in strengthening the role of the ‎center and its vision of leadership and excellence. The UAE ‎University looks forward to benefiting from this ‎cooperation in support of national strategic directions‏.‏

He also said that this cooperation seeks to build national ‎skills in important topics that contribute to enhancing the ‎global reputation of the UAE University and making it an ‎important center in transferring and building knowledge. ‎The cooperation aims to identify opportunities for the ‎exchange of faculty members and researchers between the ‎university and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. The ‎aim of this international cooperation is to organize and ‎conduct executive programs appropriate to the market in ‎the Arabian Gulf region, in addition to organizing joint ‎executive programs between the UAE and Singapore. It ‎will also contribute to organizing joint events‏.‏

Associate Professor Francesco Mancini, Vice Dean ‎‎(Executive Education) in the Lee Kuan Yew School of ‎Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, said, ‎‎ The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy s ‎Executive Education is delighted to sign a ‎memorandum of understanding to start a ‎partnership with the UAE University. We look ‎forward to working together and enhance our two ‎institutions relations with joint education ‎programmes and academic activities ‎