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The BRICS Summer School 2023, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, spanned September 4 to 6 and was attended by ICEF’s master’s student Andrey Ilyin, who majors in Financial Economics and is a recipient of the RF Presidential Scholarship. Organised by the University of Johannesburg in collaboration with the South African BRICS Youth Association (SABYA), the Summer School provides a deeper understanding of the BRICS countries and their agenda, promoting also cultural awareness. In this interview Andrey shares his impressions of the Summer School, who he met there, and what struck him most about Africa.

May 22-26, HSE delegation had been on a visit to Sabanсi University International Partnership Week. Based in Istanbul, Sabanсi University is one of Turkey’s leading research schools in the field of economics and social sciences. Attending the venue were also Sabanсi University’s partners in Asia and Latin America, particularly Israel, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, and Peru among other countries.

In May 2023, Anfisa Loboyko, who earned her bachelor’s from ICEF, assumed the post of Vice President – M&T Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley (London). During her study at ICEF, Anfisa won the Silver Nestling scholarship and received the University of London award for outstanding academic achievement.

Suleyman Karibov, who currently serves as a risk analyst at Nordic real estate investor NREP in Luxembourg, enrolled in ICEF MSc Financial Economics in 2019 and holds his bachelor’s from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Here’s how Suleyman managed to keep up with the leaning pace at ICEF, why makes academic mobility a useful experience, and how to land a job in Europe with no experience.

Francesca Macchia studies Finance at LUISS (Rome) and is in her second year of double-degree track with ICEF’s Master of Financial Economics. This year, Francesca’s paper won the third prize from HSE Student Research Paper Competition. In this interview, Francesca tells about why she chose to study in Russia, how she learned Russian, and what inspired her to choose Econometrics as a field for future PhD research.