Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid attends socially distanced graduation ceremonies

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, attended two sets of physically-distanced graduation ceremonies at the weekend.

The ceremonies were held outdoors in Dubai and saw the graduation of two batches of students from the Mohammed bin Rashid Programme for Leaders and graduates of Executive Leadership Programme at the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas.

Sheikh Mohammed also launched a Dubai Leaders programme to train 50 government employees, who were selected by their department managers to be their deputies or assistants.

"The aim is to ensure that there are qualified leaders who are able to continue the process of building in the same spirit and with the same leadership culture," Sheikh Mohammed said.

"Preparing new generations of leaders is a guarantee of the sustainability and continuity of our development."

Sheikh Mohammed has long championed efficiency in government and strong leadership in both the private and public sector.

Other than the future leaders programme for government employees, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Leadership Development also provides an Impactful Leaders Programme, which the ruler encouraged top business executives to join last year.

He has also previously said some Arab governments face a crisis of management and entrenched inefficiency.

"We have a crisis of management, not a crisis of resources," he said in August 2018.

"A politician’s true job is to...facilitate people's lives, and solve crises... not create them.”