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Anton Budarov earned his bachelor's degree from ICEF in 2009 and currently serves as Deputy Director for Corporate Finance at Gazprombank. In this interview, Anton tells what makes Gazprombank a vibrant state-owned entity, how someone with a finance background can convert to journalism and back, and what M&A specialists do when a deal doesn’t go as planned.

At the Open Day of Master’s Programme in Financial Economics, the prospective students learned about the learning process and admission. The session with alumni gave details about the employment prospects, academic opportunities and other perspectives the future diploma can open up for its holders.

Five ICEF master’s students majoring in Financial Economics will spend the next academic year 2022-23 in Rome as participants of the double degree programme with LUISS, while undergraduate students will be able to go on exchange to Istanbul Bilgi University, the London School of Economics, and the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China.

In 2022 ICEF entered into an agreement with The Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE, China), giving its students a unique opportunity to participate in the academic exchange programme with SWUFE.

A member of ICEF master’s class of 2016, Valentina Zakirova went on to study the University of Berkeley (USA) VC Unlocked programme in startup management, which she completed in 2020, and currently serves as Venture Investment Director at SDVentures fund. Valentina features on Forbes 30 Under 30 long list 2022 in Finance and Investment category. In this interview, she tells about how she made it to the list.

ICEF Career Services held an expert meeting as part of a series of career guidance events timed to ICEF’s 25^th anniversary. Its topic titled “Finance Career in Russia: Advice from ICEF graduates”, the meeting focused on discussing the current situation in the financial market and giving recommendations on further career guidance training. Acting as guest speakers were Anatoly Potashov, ex-VP for Investment at RT-Business Development; Artem Gudov, Investment Director at Ozon; and Yaroslav Kadilov, VP for Mergers and Acquisitions at SBER.

Organized in April by the Student Academic Council, the sporting events allowed students to compete in different sports. 

Competition for Early Offer of Admission to Master’s has announced its results

In his lecture titled “The Strategies of the Key Players in the Russian Banking Industry and the Role of Banking Strategist”, Roman Zilberman explained who controls the future of a bank, what makes Russia the most digitally advanced country in the field of finance, and what trends appear dominant in the finance industry of today. During the Q&A session, where Roman was assisted by Nadezhda Volodina (HR Director at Otkritie Bank), students learned about Strategy Department and the prospects of the Russian banking industry.