Anwar Gargash Academy, SAIS to train future leaders

The new partnership will encourage academic and intellectual collaboration between the two diplomatic training centres

The new partnership will feature a wide array of innovative programmes, encouraging academic and intellectual collaboration between the two diplomatic training centres. At the centerpiece of the initiative, the two schools will establish and jointly fund in perpetuity the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Distinguished Professorship, at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs in SAIS.

As a tenured faculty member at the Kissinger Center and at AGDA, the Zayed Professor will serve as a distinguished scholar and teacher, and act as a key liaison for both institutions’ faculties. The Zayed Professor will advance joint programming between the two schools. The post will also have a powerful ability to attract other scholars and leading practitioners to participate in the intellectual life and communities, at both AGDA and SAIS. The initiative will launch with executive training courses and faculty, and student exchanges and then expand to include joint certificate and joint degree programmes.

The professorship with its focus on the Middle East, aims to ensure that future leaders, in both the public and private sectors, have in-depth understanding of dynamics and developments in a region that continues to be of critical importance to policy makers around the world.