Syrian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs holds lecture for the ECAR programme

On 8 February 2010 Mr. Al-Dardari, Syrian's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, held a lecture entitled The Public-Private Partnership and the New Public Management for the students of the German-Arab degree programme Economic Change in the Arab Region (ECAR). In his talk, which took place at the ECAR premisses of Damascus University, Mr. Al-Dardari addressed Syria's current economic situation and placed a particular emphasis on the existing forms of public-private cooperation in Syria, their requirements and goals.

Besides the ECAR students, the lecture was attended by Prof. Wael Mualla, President of Damascus University, Prof. Dr. Raslan Khadour, ECAR coordinator at Damascus University, Dr. Abed Fadilieh, executive director of the ECAR programme at Damascus University, by the vice-deans of the Faculty of Economics, heads of the departments and the ECAR lecturers. Following the lecture, the attendants were invited to drinks and snacks.

The ECAR programme would like to thank Mr. Al-Dardari for his lecture.