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Guest Lecture at MP "Finance" Explores Sustainable Finance Through Chile's Emerging-Market Experience
On June 16, MP “Finance” hosted a guest lecture titled "Sustainable Finance from an Emerging-Market Perspective: Lessons from Chile" as part of the "Sustainable Finance" course. The lecture was delivered by invited Professor Hugo Eduardo Benedetti Espinoza from ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Chile.
"Quality is Priceless: The Discipline of Investing from Wall Street to the Hermitage"
In May, Finance Department associate professor Mikhail Munenzon (CFA, ASA, CAIA, PRM, MIA) conducted two guided tours at the Hermitage for undergraduate and graduate students of Finance.
Guest Lecture by Artur Kaitmazov (CBonds Company): The ESG Bond Market and the Impact of Ratings on Profitability
On May 19, Artur Kaitmazov, a leading specialist of the department of international debt markets of the financial information agency Cbonds, gave a guest lecture.
Sergei Komlev is a recognised expert in contract structuring and pricing for natural gas. From 2007 to 2023, he served as Head of the Contract Structuring and Pricing Department at Gazprom Export LLC, where he was responsible for analytical support of natural gas export contracts. Following the restructuring of Gazprom Export, he moved to Department 310 of PJSC Gazprom as Deputy Head of Section. Between 2020 and 2022, he led the “Pricing” group within the Strategy Committee of the International Gas Union. He has also been invited as an expert to the Natural Gas Exporters Forum. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and the monograph “Foundations of Natural Gas Pricing. Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry” (Anthem Press, 2022). Since 2023, he has been Deputy Head of a Section in a Department of PJSC Gazprom.
On May 13, as part of the research seminar of the Master’s Programme “Finance”, a guest lecture was delivered by Sergei Komlev, Deputy Head of a Department at PJSC Gazprom. The lecture, titled “What Makes Natural Gas as a Commodity One of the Kind”, focused on the pricing paradoxes of the global natural gas market that challenge conventional economic theories.