Dr Tareq A Al Ansari, Dr Dalal Aassouli, Dr Yousef Haik, of HBKU
Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has received a distinguished selection of world-class educators and renowned researchers to join the University’s teaching faculty as of the Fall 2018 semester.
As an evolving institute of teaching excellence, HBKU’s multidisciplinary degree options recently expanded to include six new academic degrees, including both master’s and doctoral programmes — a development that invited the arrival of a new cohort of faculty members to support these degrees.
Explaining the contribution the incoming faculty is expected to have on the degree curriculum, Professor and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Dr Yousef Haik, said, “The success of our University is ultimately determined by the human capital we engage — in short, it is the quality of educators whose capacity and experience will breathe life into our research programmes and classroom discussions to motivate great research outputs. Coming into our new degree programmes at a formative stage, these educators will indeed sculpt the very way in which these programmes will develop for years to come.”
Commenting on her decision to join HBKU as part of a pioneering group of instructors that will deliver these new degree offers, Assistant Professor of the Islamic Finance programme, Dr Dalal Aassouli, said, “CIS’s new programmes bear significance for the advancement of Islamic scholarship in academic areas concerning humanities, global affairs, and finance. As a lifelong academic, I was immediately attracted by HBKU’s innovative conceptualisation of research degrees whose overarching scope covers a number of pertinent disciplines, particularly with a view towards the regional Islamic market developments.”
She continued: “As an educator, I am driven by my students’ successes and gradual realisations of academic milestones. By joining HBKU, I am dedicated to impart my own knowledge and experiences to a new generation of promising thought leaders in Islamic fields of study.”
Likewise, the College of Science and Engineering’s (CSE) progressive academic programmes are unique offerings that aim to encourage knowledge-sharing in areas which carry transformative potential for the management capabilities of procurement and logistics specialists involved in modern supply chain networks.
CSE Assistant Professor within the Logistics and Supply Chain Management programme, Dr Tareq Al Ansari, said, “The programme seeks to complement Qatar’s projected economic needs for trained specialists who may effectively contribute to optimised and efficient logistics management tools that integrate the full supply chain for both inbound and outbound logistics movements resulting from the country’s booming trade networks. We aim to play a pioneering role in helping students develop core knowledge in purchasing, negotiation, production planning and various modes of transportation management, following the highest standards of the supply chain management profession.”
Responding to real-market demands in the application of Islamic scholarship to global affairs and finance, HBKU’s CIS added a Master of Science in Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism; a Master of Arts in Islam and Global Affairs; and a PhD in Islamic Finance and Economy.
Similarly, CSE’s new degrees offer graduate education in health and supply chain management through a new Master of Data Analytics in Health Management; a Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management; and a PhD in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
