The President of the Russian Federation welcomes participants and guests to the XX April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

On March 20, at the HSE Staff and Student Conference, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov presented the key points of the new Development Programme for the period extending to 2030. The points he suggested have prompted a series of discussions in the university corporate environment aimed at choosing the best avenues and tools for development.

At the HSE Staff and Student Conference on March 20, Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov presented a report on how the ‘HSE Development Programme for 2009–2015 and up to 2020’ has progressed since 2014.

Open lectures by professor of banking and finance from University of Torino, Cristina Rovera, were held at Shabolovka

During the seminar V. Semerikov presented the most widely discussed and original causes of why interest rates in major developed economies remain extremely low for so long period of time. It was underlined that in modern literature there is no unified consensus about possible causes of that phenomenon.

On March 20, a conference of HSE staff and students will take place at HSE. It will consider the university’s development programme and elect the new Academic Council. The previous conference took place five years ago, in 2014, and the university has changed a lot since then. HSE News Service talked to some of the university leaders about what has changed in their area of responsibility over this period.

HSE International Summer University in Moscow, Math REU, and Russian language intensive course are accepting applications. Faculty of Economic Sciences offers both academically challenging and interesting courses delivered by prominent faculty members.