Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah stated the renewed partnership between the Kuwait Basis for the Development of Sciences (KFAS) and Harvard College’s Kennedy College represents a strategic funding within the folks of Kuwait.
In keeping with an announcement issued by KFAS as we speak, His Highness stated this throughout the Govt Program Contributors Discussion board held Wednesday night on the Scientific Heart.
The occasion marked 25 years because the launch of the joint Govt Program between KFAS and the Kennedy College and highlighted the strategic partnership’s function in empowering nationwide leaders and strengthening knowledge-based decision-making in Kuwait, stories Al-Rai day by day.
In his deal with, His Highness emphasised the important function of KFAS as a nationwide platform for supporting scientific analysis, innovation, and capability constructing. He described the renewed partnership with the Kennedy College as important to equipping Kuwaiti leaders with trendy scientific instruments in management, decision-making, and public coverage — significantly amid fast international shifts in economics, governance, and synthetic intelligence.
KFAS famous that in keeping with this long-term strategic path, the Basis has constructed an in depth community of world partnerships with main tutorial and analysis establishments. These embody the London Enterprise College, the Nationwide College of Singapore, the Wharton College, Cambridge College, the London College of Economics and Political Science, and most not too long ago the European College of Administration and Expertise (ESMT) in Berlin.
These collaborations, the Basis added, have performed a key function in transferring information and strengthening nationwide capacities, with 1,530 individuals benefiting from the packages to this point.
The Basis highlighted that the “Kuwait at Harvard Program,” established in 2000, displays KFAS’s dedication to research-driven innovation and superior expertise.
This system delivers specialised government coaching designed round Kuwait’s nationwide priorities, mixing world-class tutorial content material with sensible functions tailor-made to native and regional realities.
Since its inception, the Govt Program and the Kuwait Program at Harvard have graduated 770 individuals, with 450 presently serving in management roles throughout varied state establishments.
The partnership has additionally facilitated cooperation between Kuwaiti researchers and Harvard students by joint analysis tasks, tutorial visits, and specialised fellowships—additional enhancing Kuwait’s function as an lively contributor to international information manufacturing.
KFAS reaffirmed its dedication to deepening and increasing its partnership with Harvard Kennedy College in assist of Kuwait’s ambition to construct a diversified, knowledge-based financial system.
The Basis underscored that these efforts align with the nation’s imaginative and prescient below the clever management of His Highness the Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.