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The school Gender and Public Policy Program provides regular lectures in a variety of core teaching areas in the Master of Public Administration Program. MPA candidates are invited to attend all programmatic activities organized by the program and to join the network of gender scholars and practitioners. In addition, the Gender and Public Policy Program supports the Executive Education Department at the school in designing a highly selective leadership development program titled "Negotiating for Leadership." Around 40 senior Arab women working in the private, public, and non-governmental sectors attend the annual multi-day program, which is designed and taught in collaboration with Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Program. "Negotiating for Leadership" utilizes a unique experimental approach to teaching gender in negotiation and decision making and incorporates the results of cutting-edge research on gender and negotiation in the Arab world.

  • Negotiating for Leadership
  • Training of young research assistants/interns

Negotiating for Leadership

"Negotiating for Leadership" was the first open enrollment executive education program that was offered to women only by the Dubai School of Government in partnership with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The program, which is highly integrative, covers general as well as gender and culture-specific strategies, aims at empowering participants to develop their negotiation skills, to become more successful decision makers, and to systematically improve their effectiveness as women leaders. Building on the Harvard case methodology, the course is highly interactive, and “Negotiating for Leadership” utilizes a unique experimental approach to leadership development. Both sessions of "Negotiating for Leadership" have been chaired by Professor Iris Bohnet, one of the world’s leading experts on the role of gender in negotiation and decision making. Iris Bohnet is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of the Women and Public Policy Program.

The first "Negotiating for Leadership" program took place January 14-15, 2009, at the Dubai School of Government. Participants included 46 senior women from ten different countries representing diverse fields. The course was the first executive education program on negotiation for women leaders in the Arab world.

On April 13-15, 2010, the school hosted the second “Negotiating for Leadership” program for approximately 40 senior women executives from 10 different nationalities in the public, private and non-profit sectors. HH Sheikha Hanadi Bint Nasser Al Thani attended the program as a keynote speaker, focusing on the reality of negotiating “identity,” the importance of negotiating time, and the opportunities for negotiating change for women in the Gulf region today. This practitioner perspective comes as a complement to theoretical and research perspectives on gender in negotiation that were presented jointly by the school’s May Al-Dabbagh, and Harvard’s Iris Bohnet.


Training of young research assistants/interns

The Gender and Public Policy Program is committed to training and mentoring young students and researchers through assistantships in various research initiatives and through its internship program. The internship program has trained and mentored about 15 young research assistants from different UAE universities (such as United Arab Emirates University, Zayed University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), and continues to do so on a regular basis.

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