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The 15^th of May witnessed the senior managers, programme coordinators, faculty members and students of ICEF and the Faculty of Economic Sciences (FES) welcome the officials and administrators of the International Department of the School of Economics, Shanghai University.

Kristina Drozd is in her fourth year of ICEF bachelor's programme and successfully combines her studies with managing the customer experience projects at Alfa-Bank. Kristina’s semester-long experience as an exchange student at the University of Bologna had given her unique practice of intercultural communication. In this interview, Kristina shares about why she chose to work in banking, how product managers can benefit from their knowledge of finance, and what makes going on exchange a useful experience.

June 25 to July 8, the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, is hosting the 2023 Global Academy Summer Camp. Corporate Green Innovation and Sustainability. Registered as its participants are eleven bachelor's and master's students of ICEF.

Gleb Kudryashov is in his fourth year of undergraduate study and one of the top students in ICEF’s International Programme in Economics and Finance. Gleb holds prize from last year’s Econometrics Universiade and this year he received acceptance letter from MIT (USA). Here’s why Gleb chose study over work, how he discovered his best-fit master’s in finance, and why he believes conversing with the Nobel laureates can be life-changing.

The Econometrics Universiade-2023 has announced its results. This year the contest resumed in-person operation after having been held online for three years, and was marked by the exceptional performance of the ICEF students, its winners.

In a recent ICEF Talks podcast, Professor Vincent Fardeau talks about his experience at LSE, why he chose to do a PhD, and what topics he explores as a researcher. Vincent gives the answer as to whether crisis of ideas even happens with research community, why techies shouldn’t underestimate financial intuition, and how to make a student thesis a success when it explores the trendy topic of the cryptocurrencies.

Maria Petrova, who did her bachelor’s at HSE Perm and her master’s at HSE ICEF, heads a department at Sovcombank. Maria co-authors a master’s-level course designed to help the students of NES and ICEF become better prepared for the workplace and even land job offers before graduation. In this interview with Success Builder, Maria tells about the qualities employers look for in the candidates for analyst position, how new hires can improve their managerial skills, and why Sovcombank chose to be its own source of manpower.

ICEF continues to hire faculty with graduate degrees (PhD) earned abroad. In September 2023, it will welcome Alexander Usvitsky, who holds his bachelor’s from ICEF (2013) and his PhD from the Florida State University (2020).

Apart from solid background in economics, ICEF benefits its students by giving them the opportunities to pursue vibrant social life. Leia Sherman is in her third year of bachelor’s programme and chairs ICEF Student Council, helping her peers with academic tasks and personal queries. Here’s why Leia thinks ICEF community is special, how graduates provide career counselling to undergraduates, and what ICEF Student Council actually does to make everyone comfortable.

On 15 April, HSE University held the anniversary Futsal Competition among twelve student teams. The first place went to the team of ICEF.