(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QatarDebate Center — a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development — will launch second panel discussion of the 'Oasis of Dialogue under the title of 'Qatar's Economy: Strengths and Weaknesses on Tuesday at 7 pm online.
Oasis of Dialogue aims to provide a constructive environment for dialogue and the exchange of ideas and theses and seeks to build a positive interactive system based on exploring and respecting the other, through an active link of three main components. Also, it includes experts and specialists and authors of research and analytical writing, as well as young people with their views, perceptions and interests in contemporary issues.
Dr. Hayat Maarafi, Executive Director of QatarDebate Center, said Oasis of Dialogue is a Forum for the expert minds and capable youth skills, and a platform that features discussion of emerging talent. It hones dialogue competencies of the elite, with intellectuals and academics, so difference becomes the new mindset, and dialogue a means of coexistence.
He added: 'The first discussion episode of Oasis of Dialogue was successful and fruitful. The center was able to discuss important issues in our time. It is a spacious platform designed to educate young people on specialised topics of scientific fields and stimulate ideas, experiences, and community development.
Indicating that the choice of the title of the panel discussion 'Qatar Economy: Strengths and weaknesses coincides with the risks and challenges arising from the current crises and looking at them from several aspects and creating an academic environment to discuss these issues and try to reach sustainable economic development. She welcomes experts' and specialists' participation in this panel discussion.
On behalf of the QatarDebate, she thanked Dr. Khaled Rashid Al Khater, Dr. Al Anoud Al Maadid, Nasser Al Emadi, and everyone who participated in the preparation and presentation.
Guests of the second discussion panel from the Oasis of Dialogue included Dr. Khaled Al Khater, who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California (2009) and MA and BSc Honors degrees in Economics from University of Western Michigan, US. He specialises in monetary policy, political science and economic growth.
He is a fellow researcher at the Center for Macroeconomics and the Institute for Emerging Markets at the University of Cambridge, UK, and previously worked as a resident researcher at Georgetown University in Qatar. He was also director of the Research and Monetary Policy Department at the Central Bank of Qatar, and represented the State of Qatar in the Technical Committee of the Monetary Union of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
His research interests include monetary policy, exchange rate policy, macroeconomic policies, economic diversification in the GCC countries, and the political economy of rentier states.
He has several scientific papers published in a number of scientific periodicals, books and research centers and participated in many international conferences as a lecturer and speaker.
Dr Alanoud Al Maadeed, Assistant Professor of Economics at Qatar University, holds a doctorate degree in economics and finance besides the award of Innovation and Influence from Brunel University in London in 2016 and worked as a fellow at Qatar Center for International and Regional Studies — Georgetown University.
She is a researcher interested in the fields of chronologic economics, the stock market in the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and behavioral economics, and has taught the principles of macro- and microeconomics, energy economics and monetary policies.
She is involved in many research projects, including leading a research titled 'Qatar Stock Markets Vision through a behavioral lens. Dr. Al Maadeed received the Emir of Qatar Award for Educational Excellence 2017.
The discussion panel will be managed by Nasser Al Emadi, a graduate of Business Administration from Qatar University.
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