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Building Human Capital

Internships and secondments

The Regulatory Authority hosted many learning and development,
work experience and information sharing opportunities during 2017.
The core business departments continued to build on their long-
standing relationship with Qatar University’s Faculty of Law through
delivery of an internship programme for Qatari undergraduates.

Four Qataris benefited from internships at the Regulatory Authority,
learning about core business activities ranging from bank super-
vision to macroprudential analysis to drafting legislation. These
internships, as well as one in the Translation department, were
supported by the Al Masar programme, designed to provide oppor-
tunities to high-performing university and post-graduate students
to work in a professional environment while they are still working
on their degrees.

Abdulla Majid Al-Kuwari was seconded to the Regulatory Authority
from the QFC Authority in early July 2017 for a six-month place- Fatima Mohammed Al-Hemaidi, a student of English literature and Maryam Abdurahman Ali joined the Bank Supervision department in July
ment with the Macroprudential Analysis department. Abdulla has linguistics at Qatar University, was with the Translation department 2017 for a one-month internship. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Business
a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the Barcelona for a one-month internship in July and August 2017 Administration degree at Qatar University. Maryam’s supervisor, Hasan
Graduate School of Economics (UPF), and a Bachelor of Arts in Gilani, Associate Director, Bank Supervision, said “Maryam was eager to
Economics from the University of Chicago, where he was a research increase her knowledge of bank supervision. During her internship, we also
assistant at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. focused on interpersonal skills and leadership attributes and behaviour. It
Moza Al-Naemi, a legal counsel in the QFC Authority’s Legal depart- was a pleasure working with her.”
About his secondment, Abdulla said, “I’ve gained valuable expe- ment, was with the Legislative Counsel team in the Policy and
rience as an economic analyst with the Macroprudential team. Enforcement division on a part-time secondment from mid-Septem-
When I contributed to the Macroprudential Report, I was able to ber through December 2017. Moza’s on-the-job learning focused
explore applied economic research by using different data sources on the development of policy and drafting legislation. She has an Outreach to Qatar’s universities
and examining their advantages and disadvantages. I also con- LLB from Qatar University, an LLM from Duke University in North Car-
nected with and learned from different local institutions when I olina, and joined the QFC Authority Legal department in 2014.
worked on the Background Briefing on Regional Events Report. I To interest university students in careers in financial regulation, the
have learned so much from the highly experienced professional Moza’s secondment was part of the training that Legislative Regulatory Authority participated in three career fairs in 2017. Staff
regulators here.” Counsel provides under a Legislative Drafting Services Agreement from the core business departments staffed booths at Hamad Bin
Khalifa University and Qatar University fairs in February and March,
between the QFC Authority and the Regulatory Authority for the respectively. In September, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar
provision of legislative drafting assistance. Under the agreement, hosted an Internship Showcase, and the Regulatory Authority was
the Regulatory Authority provides legislative drafting and advice there to engage in conversations with students about internship
on the QFC’s legislation. Moza was the primary liaison in all matters opportunities.
under the agreement, including instructing Legislative Counsel on
drafting projects of the QFC Authority.