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Alongside with the core curriculum,ICEF Academia offers its students more advanced courses, research and scientific debate opportunities, and better preparation for academic careers. Presenting ICEF Academia to first-year students were its leaders, teachers, and ICEF graduate Arseny Stolyarov, who is currently doing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The Fourth ICEF Conference on Applied Economics will present the studies conducted by scholars at the universities across the world, that relate to education. We talked with Fabian Slonimczyk, an Associate Professor at ICEF and the conference organizing committee member, to learn more about the highlights of this year’s conference.

Every year, ICEF awards its best-performing undergraduate students with trips to LSE Summer School at the London School of Economics, a key member institution of the University of London (UoL). While last year the School delivered its courses online, this year it offered its participants a choice between online and offline learning – and many chose to come to London despite challenging travel restrictions due to COVID. In this interview, our students share which mode they chose and why, how PCR testing services work at universities in London, what made their travel challenging, and, most importantly, how they found their experience.

Yulia Chekunaeva graduated in one of ICEF’s first classes in 2003. She chose to do her master’s at the University of Warwick and then worked at Sberbank and Goldman Sachs. Yulia is currently Director for Capital Markets & Strategic Initiatives and a Board member at En+ Group, the world’s leading producer of low-carbon aluminum and renewable energy. In this interview, she tells about her student years in London and the USA, her passion for racing, and how new social values are re-shaping the business environment.

In the spring of 2021, HSE ICEF graduate Oleg Bezumov made it to Forbes 30 Under 30 winners list in category Finance & Investment. Oleg currently holds an executive position at Goldman Sachs (London) investment banking department and has participated in the world’s biggest IPO that raised $29 billion for Saudi Aramco oil company. In this interview Oleg shares how living in London can spur personal development, how sports contribute to career success, and what provides the yardstick for prestige in the investment business. He also tells about the benefits of networking and his encounter with David Beckham.

Despite the pandemic and the travel restrictions, HSE University continues to hire international faculty members. Runjie Geng, from China, joined HSE ICEF in 2020 as Assistant Professor. He spent the first semester working remotely and was only able to come to Moscow at the end of 2020. International faculty member talks about joining HSE University and getting used to life in Moscow.

Along with Career Development Centre, ICEF operates a mentoring programme to prepare its students for the job market – a project started in 2016 by Maxim Bochkov, a graduate of ICEF Bachelor’s Programme and currently an Associate at Oliver Wyman. In this interview, Maxim unveils the secret to a good mentor-mentee match and explains how the matching process happens and why alumni find mentoring exciting.

For six years now, International Evening School (IES) has been operating at ICEF HSE. The programme is completely free of charge and offers high school students (grades 9-11) a course in Economics which is designed to prepare them for university. Here is how IES works and how to enroll.