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For his outstanding academic progress, active life stance, and striving for personal development, ICEF 2-year master’s student Sergey Filyasov won Golden HSE Award in nomination Silver Nestling. Sergey’s other accolades include the prize from HSE 2018 Student Research Project Competition, and the place on RF Presidential Scholarship program. In his interview, Sergey spoke about what it takes to become a researcher, why studying in Russia is advantageous, and why health is pursued by economists as a research topic.

The results are in for the Competition of the Best Thesis Projects, held by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy for the graduates of economics faculties.

On Friday, December 21 ICEF and FES held the Research Seminar

On Thursday, December 20 ICEF and FES held the Research Seminar.

On Wednesday December 19 ICEF/FES held the Research Seminar (JM)

Results calculated for 2018 HSE Student Research Paper Competition. ICEF students and graduates show great results!

On December 15, the 2^nd Anti-Conference of Graduates was held in conjunction with the New Year’s get-together of all ICEF alumni. This event was held at Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow and turned out to be very lively and exciting.

At Citigroup Investment Banking, ICEF MSc programme graduate 2010 Sergey Kurdyukov worked his way up from a trainee to a vice president. We interviewed Sergey about things to know about banking career, where to invest, and how to avoid missed opportunities.

This past summer, Srdan Todorovic successfully defended his Master’s thesis and graduated from ICEF’s Financial Economics programme. He now works in VTB Bank’s retail operations and is considering further graduate studies at HSE. In this interview, he talks about his favourite courses and teachers, what he got out of the Master’s programme, and how learning in Russia differs from Serbian education.