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University partnerships Building a wealth of knowledge internally

The Regulatory Authority continued its outreach In line with the Al Masar goal to create a wealth
to Carnegie Mellon University Qatar (CMU-Q) and of knowledge within the organisation, in 2020

Georgetown University Qatar (GU-Q), which began in the Regulatory Authority launched Ma’arefatna,

2019. Computer Science students at CMU-Q worked a knowledge-sharing programme dedicated to

on the Information Systems Project of refurbishing the helping employees share their expertise and

Regulatory Authority’s website public registers with knowledge with each other. In the same year, three
weekly guidance provided by the Information Technology online sessions were held, covering an in-depth

staff. The three-month project concluded in April 2020. view of the core business works and processes.

The core business departments launched the Regulatory The Regulatory Authority held five in-house

Authority’s first virtual internship in partnership with information sessions, RAfresh & RAfuel, to educate

GU-Q in March 2020. Nine students formed the employees on topics ranging from platforms

remote research team and produced a report on their for data analytics to corporate governance.

research about international regulatory jurisdictions.

Awareness sessions and career fairs

To interest university students in careers in financial

regulation and recruit potential job candidates, the

Regulatory Authority conducted two awareness
sessions and participated in one career fair in 2020.

Staff from the core business departments and Human
Resources staffed the booth at the Qatar University

fair in March. The Regulatory Authority conducted

the awareness sessions at CMUQ in January and at

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in September.

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