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HEC Paris School of Management and Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) have marked the successful conclusion of Module 3 of HBKU’s Executive Master in the Energy and Resources programme. |
HBKU’s Executive Master in Energy and Resources was launched in January.
Designed in partnership with Georgetown University, Texas A&M University and HEC Paris, the programme offers an innovative educational approach in the field of energy and resources by integrating the disciplines of geopolitics, public policy, technology, finance, management and strategy.
Successful participants will graduate with an Executive Master’s degree from HBKU and be eligible to receive a certificate of completion from each of HBKU’s partner universities - Georgetown, Texas A&M and HEC Paris.
A total of 28 participants completed Module 3 delivered by HEC Paris on its premises in Tornado Tower, Doha. The 10-day module was facilitated by HEC Paris faculty Dr Joseph Nehme, academic director of the programme, along with Dr Andrea Masini and Dr Nils Plambeck.
The participants also benefited from the experience of guest speakers, including Guillaume Chalmin, managing director of Total E&P Qatar, and Christian Vanderwouden, operations director of Qatar Shell.
“HEC Paris partnered with HBKU to deliver four modules in Executive Master’s in Energy and Resources,” Dr Nehme said. “In the third module of the programme, we custom-designed a rich programme that covered the following topics - strategy, project management and
operations management.
“To analyse and solve complex and challenging industry cases, participants from various backgrounds joined forces and fostered knowledge transfer in a dynamic and rich environment.”
In thanking HBKU for the opportunity of working with them on the programme, Professor Laoucine Kerbache, CEO and academic dean of HEC Paris in Qatar, said: “HEC Paris is extremely delighted to have shared its expertise in delivering a module that adds great value to the entire programme.”
Professor Antoine Hyafil, Dr Kerbache’s predecessor, who joined HBKU to develop the innovative programme, stressed: “HBKU is developing a world-class programme with considerable support from its three academic partners, who are all leading institutions in the disciplines in which they contribute.”
In this module, the strategy topic provided an analysis on how industry structure and market dynamics in the energy sector impacts the formulation of corporate strategy. On the other hand, project management provided participants with fundamental project management skills and taught them to value, plan, contract, finance, organise, motivate and control resources in an environment where cultural
diversity is a norm.
