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Academic Mobility Applications Call Open: Summer Schools and Fall Semester 2025

Academic Mobility Applications Call Open: Summer Schools and Fall Semester 2025
In the run-up to the 2025-26 fall semester academic exchange, the team of ICEF International Administrative Department met with students seeking study-abroad experience. Here are the exchange opportunities available, the documentation package required and how to get it right.

Pavel Smirnov, Member of the ICEF Class of 2024: From first CV to banking job

Pavel Smirnov, a member of the ICEF class of 2024, serves as a Sales Specialist & Trader at Raiffeisen Bank Institutional Clients
In this interview, Pavel Smirnov, who earned his bachelor’s in 2024, talks about his unfolding career. Currently a Sales Specialist & Trader at Raiffeisen Bank Institutional Clients, Pavel shares his experience and emphasizes things to pay attention to while a student for a successful career start.

HSE ICEF and China’s SWUFE RIEM Launch Double Master’s Degree

The ICEF delegation at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in Chengdu (China), October 2024. The visit resulted in an agreement to launch the ICEF–RIEM double master’s.
In January 2025, HSE University entered into a cooperation agreement with the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) to implement a double master’s that joins ICEF’s Financial Economics programme with SWUFE’s Master's in Finance. Combining the best of China and Russia’s academic frameworks, this new degree offers a unique study-abroad experience. In this collaboration, HSE ICEF is partnering with the Research Institute of Economics and Management (RIEM), which was established at SWUFE in 2006 to facilitate top-level, international research and training in economics and finance.

Yan Minghao, Second-Year Master’s Student from China: ‘Here at ICEF, I Study and Communicate with Intelligent People’

Yan Minghao, second-year master’s student of ICEF HSE from China
Meet Yan Minghao from Harbin. Yan is in his second year of master’s study at ICEF HSE and has a passion for mathematics and Russian culture. In this interview he shares the experience of being an ICEF student, contributing to international research venues, and travelling around Russia.

Students Share Exchange Experience of United Arab Emirates University

ICEF student Ulyana Kobylkina
How does one end up at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an exchange student? Are classes at UAEU really single-sex? What is there to do at the weekend? ICEF student Ulyana Kobylkina and FES Economics and Data Science student Nika Prokudina share their experiences of their recent exchange.

A Glimpse into ICEF Winter Examination Session: New Year’s Carnival

A Glimpse into ICEF Winter Examination Session: New Year’s Carnival
ICEF has a good tradition of encouraging its students to sit their first winter examination, Accounting, dressed in fancy New Year’s outfits.

Nikita Morozov, Y1 Master’s Student of ICEF: I Live by the Motto, “Primus inter pares”

Nikita Morozov at the Bank of Russia Financial Congress 2023
Nikita Morozov, who is in his first year of Master of Financial Economics at ICEF, boasts an incredible amount of academic accomplishments in his portfolio. We started this interview by asking how Nikita has achieved them, what his first impressions of being an ICEF student are, and what he expects from his master’s studies.

ICEF Grad Sofia Salyamova Wins Student Research Paper Competition 2024

Sofia Salyamova
Sofia Salamova, who graduated from ICEF in 2024, authors a paper that won top prize in HSE Student Research Paper Competition in the category “Best Finance Research Paper by Master’s Students and Graduates 2024”. Here’s Sofia about what inspired her to do her research, supervised by Associate Professor of ICEF Vladimir Sokolov, how it went, and why it is important to be able to “explain your research to your grandma”.

ICEF Celebrates the Winners of SRPC-2024

ICEF Celebrates the Winners of SRPC-2024
HSE Student Research Papers Competition 2024 has announced its results. This year it has the students and the graduates of ICEF on the winners list for every single category of economics and finance research.

Vietnam-Born Thao My Tran, ICEF Graduate 2022: “Through Thorns to the Stars”

Tran Thao My
Thao My Tran, or “simply My” as the Vietnam-born member of the ICEF class of 2022 introduces herself, is 22. My lives and works in Moscow. Here’s why she was able to enroll in ICEF at 16, excelling academically while working a job at a bank and in ICEF Laboratory of Financial Economics and competing in case championships.