QInvest, Qatar's leading investment group, and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate and coordinate in the fields of research and education.

The MOU will offer QInvest the opportunity to make use of CMU-Q’s educational programs, research and strategic studies. QInvest in return offers CMU-Q’s new graduates and students in their final year the opportunity to spend one month working at QInvest under the bank’s QTalent initiative.

The MOU was signed at the QInvest offices in Doha by Tamim Hamad Al Kawari, QInvest’s chief executive officer, Farnam Jahanian, provost of Carnegie Mellon University, and Ilker Baybars, dean and CEO of CMU-Q.

Dean Baybars praised QInvest’s contribution to business education: “QTalent is a market-leading internship program, one which will truly benefit our students. It is invaluable experience for students to learn international best practices across investment banking and asset management before they begin their careers.”

QInvest’s Al Kawari remarked, “We are very pleased to have introduced this important programme. Developing the next generation of Qatar’s workforce is extremely important to QInvest and we place significant emphasis on training and developing all of our young people. We are excited about this collaboration with CMU and we look forward to welcoming our new interns to QInvest later this year.”

QTalent is an internship program that QInvest developed to provide students and new graduates the opportunity to work in a challenging and dynamic environment across a wide variety of sectors in Islamic financial services. Successful candidates will enroll in an initial orientation course to equip them with the foundation to quickly adapt to working at QInvest. The remainder of the program is a mix of classroom-based learning and exposure to live deals and transactions.