Yousef Mana'a Saeed Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to the United States of America, has highlighted the UAE government's commitment to investing in education and training future leaders.
He also explained the importance of the five-year Emirates Leadership Initiative, which was launched in 2014 with the aim to strengthen relations between the countries and peoples of the Middle East.
Al Otaiba said that the main objective of the programme is the development of leadership skills through seminars sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School, HKS, for Emirati officials in the public sector.
The Emirates Leadership Initiative is administered by Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, HKS faculty chair of the Middle East Initiative, MEI, and David Gergen, Co-director of the Centre for Public Leadership.