Hub For Financial Knowledge

Qatar Finance and Business Academy, a joint initiative of the Qatar Financial Centre and the Qatar Foundation, aims to be the GCC financial knowledge hub by 2013 and a global benchmark by 2015.

The academy - whose senior management is drawn from prestigious institutions such as Columbia, Harvard, London Business School, INSEAD and IESE - will launch in October its internationally accredited courses in banking, insurance, asset management and capital markets as well as Islamic finance, seeking to bridge the gap in the supply of quality human capital.

The academy will also set up a research centre which would be a repository for primary and secondary data, including for the fast growing Islamic finance.

In the initial three years, the academy, which is located at the Al Alawi Tower in the West Bay, will focus on Qatar where it seeks to build capacity for the country’s booming financial services industry.

“The academy is working with a range of strategic partners to deliver learning including internationally recognised qualifications,” said the academy’s director Jon Morton.