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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, 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.

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”.

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.

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.

Meet Anna Tikhonova, a member of the ICEF master’s class of 2016 who currently serves as a Vice President at US-headquartered Arena Investors. Here’s how she managed to achieve her current position, do 4,500 km of cycling and complete her first super sprint triathlon – all that in 2024 alone!

The bachelor’s class of 2024. Where are they now? Sofia Salamova, Daria Kostenkova and Anna Bogomazova chose to pursue a master’s. Here are their impressions and experience of studying the Master’s in Finance at Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick.

Dmitry Filippov, who is in his fourth year of BSc Economics and Finance, was excused from classes in the campus in Pokrovsky Boulevard for a period of three months. The reason was his exchange studies with Shanghai University under the three-month exchange programme between schools in Russia and China. Here’s Dmitry’s impressions and takeaways from his experience of international communication.

What hurdles do our graduating students face? Some questions that seem to concern them the most are, “Do I have the right skills and enough knowledge? What will my workplace tasks really be like? Will I be able to put theory into practice and live up to expectations my employer has for me?” To help the students tackle their pre-graduation worries already now in the middle of their fourth year, ICEF offers a series of workshops dedicated to job readiness and hosted by its faculty and former students.