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Two 4-year students of ICEF, Vlad Dukhanin and Anna Oorzhak, came up with the idea of a charity art sale to promote emerging artists and got it funded by ICEF. Here’s Vlad with details of how they got the event started, what makes art management an exciting career, and how art managers can benefit from financial education.

14 October 2022, ICEF Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) and Centre for Institutional Studies (CInSt) held the 11^th International Moscow Finance Conference. The event featured six presentations by researchers based in China, Australia and USA. Acting as discussants were professors of HSE and schools in Romania.

Timur Kalyaev is in his second year of master’s studies and enrolled in ICEF’s Financial Economics programme after earning his bachelor’s in Applied Economics from the Moscow State University in Azerbaijan. Timur combines his studies with a part-time job. Here’s why he thinks MSc Financial Economics can be interesting to techies, what sort of difficulties international students face when applying, and how to best prepare for the admission interview.

The International Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE ICEF HSE) and the Center for Institutional Studies (CInSt HSE) jointly organize the 11th ICEF-CInSt International Finance Conference, which in 2022 unites the ICEF International Moscow Finance Conference and the Annual CInSt Banking Workshop "Banking in Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities".

As previously, QS Business Master’s Rankings feature HSE’s five MSc programmes, with ICEF’s MSc Financial Economics remaining in the Top 100 for five years in a row. Having moved up three positions in QS Business Master’s in Finance 2023 (ranking 82^nd among 189 globally recognized finance degrees), the programme is Russia’s only master’s in finance with a ranking in the Top 100.

A BSc graduate of Faculty of Economics and MSc graduate of ICEF, Artem Gudov chose to work in business and was successfully leading the investment departments of such giants as OZON and M.Video—El Dorado. Currently a Chief Financial Officer at Dubai-headquartered Eqvilent Group, Artem shares why he quit banking for industry, why the future belongs to marketplaces, and how to thrive on high-frequency trading.

Ilianna Danengirsh earned her bachelor’s from ICEF in 2016 and her double master’s in Management & Big Data from IE Business School in Spain. Ilianna’s employment history includes McKinsey, Bain and an EdTech startup. In this interview, Ilianna explains why financial experts should be looking to improve their data skills, what makes building a start-up a unique experience, and why coming back to consulting can be a wise decision.

ICEF team of Master’s Programme in Financial Economics has welcomed its new cohort of students at the Freshers' Day – the opportunity for students to meet their teachers, programme counsellors and seniors in an informal setting to learn what to expect from their years as students.

Led by the managers of ICEF and its bachelor’s degree programme, the event has introduced the newly admitted students to ICEF, its organization of teaching, alumni community and how and where to seek support and assistance. The day involved the tour of the campus where the students met with their tutors and got advice from seniors.

Traditionally organized by ICEF Center for Educational Technologies, Introduction to Teaching workshops are designed for teachers who are new to ICEF and are to be taken by all new teachers regardless of their previous experience as lecturers or seminar tutors.