Public private partnerships create new opportunities for youth to shape the GCC future

Public private partnerships create new opportunities for youth to shape the GCC future

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Business and government leaders at the Harvard Business School GCC Alumni Club’s Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum’s final day highlighted the great importance of public-private partnerships to create new opportunities for youth, the role of the digital financial revolution in shaping the future of financial transactions as well as the significance of achieving happiness in work environments in Gulf countries.

His Excellency Ghannam Al Mazrouei, Secretary General of the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council, said that UAE government is driving engagement with the private sector to facilitate increased access for Emirati talents.

“The private sector is the main engine for economic development in any country,” he said. “We are asking the private sector to support and to provide more opportunities to Emirati graduates”.

He said that the Emirati Talent Competitiveness Council created a program to provide graduates experience at private sector companies for one year.

“At the end of the year the company has the choice to recruit them or not, other than the fact that this increases the governments access to talent,” he said.

Khaled Alsaleh, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, MENA at digital transformation company, Sutherland said that education in the region has to evolve to serve the developing