LSE Interim Director Professor Julia Black welcomes members of KFAS’ board.
Following a successful 10-year agreement, LSE and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) have agreed to extend their strategic partnership for a further five years.
In May 2017, LSE Interim Director, Professor Julia Black, and incoming LSE Director, Dame Minouche Shafik welcomed members of KFAS’ board to the School to discuss the renewal, which will see KFAS grant £2.7 million to fund the research activities of the Kuwait Programme in the Middle East Centre from 2017–2022.
The Kuwait Programme is a multi-disciplinary research programme that focuses on issues such as healthcare and urban development. The new phase of the Programme will offer research funding opportunities to colleagues from across the School. Two annual grant programmes will be also be launched in the Summer of 2017 to fund collaborative research by scholars at LSE and Kuwait institutions.
Commenting on the agreement, Professor Toby Dodge, Director of the LSE Middle East Centre, said:
"The five-year grant from KFAS will allow LSE, in close collaboration with Kuwaiti academics, to pursue world-class research. It will foster enduring academic partnerships between LSE and a number of Kuwaiti universities that will deliver innovative research for the benefit of all."