Public Policy Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Overview

Qatar has a strategic geographical position at the global crossroads of culture, business, and geopolitics. The country is located at the center of a region that requires leaders who can manage multi-faceted relationships that span different public policy making dynamics and command a wide range of skills.

The Public Policy program of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University provides training to graduate students from a range of disciplines in the skills needed to understand and enrich policy making in Qatar and the region. The program will offer world-class academic and professional training in public policy analysis, design, implementation, evaluation, and management; as well as specializations in social policy, and in energy and the environment.

Program Focus

The program builds on the four pillars of public policy: politics, economics, public management ethics, and research methodology. It is designed to integrate analysis, research, and practical application of knowledge, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Other distinctive features include a strong focus on ethics in program design, and on real-world experiences. The specializations will complement and deepen the core training, and encourage students to work with clients in addressing current policy problems. The program’s ambition is to create thinkers who can do, and doers who can think.

Graduates of this program will be equipped to:

• Engage with themes and ideas that cut across disciplines, with an emphasis on the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy in context, particularly in areas in which there are pressing societal needs.

• Undertake various methods of research; and produce and test case studies at the frontier of the public policy and social sciences.

• Demonstrate expertise in multiple fields within public policy and social sciences, including the theory, methodology, and understanding of public policy implementation processes.

• Acquire knowledge of the approaches for advancing research towards having a social impact and producing original interdisciplinary research and case studies.