Executive Program on Social Policy - Middle East (SPME)

This executive program is offered in collaboration between the Program for Social Policy Evaluation and Research (PROSPER) at the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the University of California, Berkeley.

The program will prepare leaders with an intellectual foundation of analytic skills and knowledge of social policy design, which can be applied in diverse national settings. It is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of the philosophical issues, classic debates, prevailing assumptions, social accounting, and recent trends in the social policy developments of modern welfare states.

Course Fee: USD 10,000

Instructors • Dr. Neil Gilbert, Professor, University of California, Berkeley • Dr. Anis Ben Brik, Associate Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University • Dr. Asad Ahmed, Professor, University of California, Berkeley • Dr. Daniel Mulhern, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley.

Upon completion of the program, HBKU and the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies will provide a joint certification of completion to the students.