Research & Expertise

Moscow Financial Forum 2025: "The Financial System: Challenges and Tasks"
The Moscow Financial Forum 2025 has become a large-scale platform for discussing key issues of the Russian economy and finance, bringing together representatives of government, business, the scientific community and universities. Vladislav Afanasyev, Associate Professor of the Department of Finance, lecturer at the MP "Finance", attended the event from our campus.

International Workshop "AI in Finance" with Symbiosis School of Economics (India)
On March 17, 2025, HSE University – St. Petersburg hosted the international workshop "AI in Finance", organised by Boris Lodiagin and Olga Alekseeva, faculty members of the Finance Department, with the support of Dr. Varvara V. Nazarova, Head of the Department of Finance and by prof. Deepa Gupta from SSE side. The event was made possible through collaboration with Symbiosis School of Economics (SSE), India, and the invaluable support of Dr. Sharma Manoj, Vice President of HSE – St. Petersburg, and Tatiana A. Lezina, Dean of the St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management.

Guest Lecture by Yandex Autonomous Vehicles CFO: Cost of Capital and M&A Valuation
On March 3, students of the Master in Finance programme at HSE University – St. Petersburg had the opportunity to attend a guest lecture by Alexander Shvarev, CFO of Yandex Autonomous Vehicles, PhD in Economics, MBA, member of the Academic Council of the Master's programme and former Partner at PwC Central and Eastern Europe in Corporate Finance.

PROCareer Event: Digitalisation in Banking from BSPB
On 30 January, the Kantemirovskaya video studio hosted an online panel discussion with experts Alexey Sergeyevich Ganichev, Deputy Director of Programming at Bank St. Petersburg, Varvara Nazarova, Head of the SEM Finance Department and Academic Supervisor of the Finance Master's Programme, and moderator Maria Mikhailovna Abramovich, Project Manager at the Career Development Centre and guest lecturer at the SEM Department.