Investments in Financial Markets

Gabriella Leelee Enchill is a third-year student at the HSE University Doctoral School of Sociology. She has a bachelor’s in Integrated Community Development from the University for Development Studies in her native Ghana and a master’s in Population and Development from HSE University. Her current research focuses on gender inequality in rural Ghanaian communities. Gabriella spoke to the HSE News Service about what her studies have uncovered about inequality in the region, how women can gain agency by banding together, and why studying these communities helps empower women around the world.

The 24th Christmas film seminar of the HSE Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology (LSEI), held at the end of December, was devoted to the causes of anxiety and depression among young people. The focus of the discussion was the 2018 film Eighth Grade, whose main character is a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

HSE University in 2025

On October 16, 2025, Forbes Education published its list of the top 20 Russian universities with the best employer reputation in 2025. The ranking was based on a survey of leading Russian employers, who named the higher education institutions whose graduates they consider the most well-prepared and are most inclined to hire. HSE University took first place in the ranking.

The olympiad is organised by Rosfinmonitoring in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Education of Russia, and universities affiliated with the International Network AML/CFT Institute, including HSE University. This year, experts from HSE have contributed methodologically to the development of tasks for the invitational round. School and university students can participate by registering for the preliminary round by 30 March.

FES students received letters with the application form on their corporate e-mail. The destinations are: Hungary, Italy, China, Kazakhstan, Turkey and more!

Alena Podaneva graduated from the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics, Master's Degree in Financial Engineering, Master's Degree in Quantitative Methods in Finance and Economics from the University of Luxembourg in 2019. This week she successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Luxembourg on the topic Public and private procurement of services in the healthcare sectorCongratulations!

HSE University has launched a competition for solutions using artificial intelligence technology in theses work. The goal of the competition is to evaluate how students use tools based on generative models in their 2024 graduation theses (GT).

Gao Song from China, master student at HSE Financial Engineering Program, applied and was successfully admitted to study for a masters in Quantitative Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg during his second year of masters studies at HSE. Upon successful completion of both programs, he will be awarded a masters degree from both institutions. From the Fall 2023, Gao Song will start his PhD program as a Doctoral Researcher at the Parallel Computing and Optimization Group (PCOG) in the Computer Science Department at the University of Luxembourg