QInvest and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to co-operate and co-ordinate in the fields of research and education.
The MoU will offer QInvest the opportunity to use CMU-Q’s educational programmes, research and strategic studies, as well as those from select schools at Carnegie Mellon’s US campus.
QInvest in return will provide CMU-Q’s new graduates and students in their final year the opportunity to spend one month working at QInvest under the bank’s ‘QTalent’ initiative.
The agreement was signed at QInvest’s offices in Doha by Tamim Hamad al-Kawari, QInvest’s chief executive; Farnam Jahanian, provost of Carnegie Mellon University, and Ilker Baybars, dean and chief executive of CMU-Q.
‘QTalent’ is an internship programme that QInvest developed to provide students and new graduates the opportunity to work in a challenging and dynamic environment across a wide variety of projects and sectors in Islamic financial services.
“We are very pleased to have introduced this significant programme. Developing the next generation of Qatar’s workforce is extremely important to QInvest and we place significant emphasis on training and developing all of our young people,” al-Kawari said.
Co-operation with leading educational institutions like CMU is an effective way of expressing the commitment and support to developing human capital, according to Essa Saud al-Kawari, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme’s spokesperson and QInvest’s head of government and community relations and
administration affairs.
“QTalent is a market-leading internship programme, one which will truly benefit our students. It is invaluable experience for students to learn international best practices across investment banking and asset management before they begin their careers,” Baybars said.