International Recognition and Launch of Undergraduate Program

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AND LAUNCH OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM (2009-2013)

At 2009 NES Commencement Ceremony, the US President Barack Obama delivered a Keynote Address. 

In 2010 the School was included in the SSRN rating among the 100 best faculties of economics in the world.

Also, in 2010 NES became the first Russian university to announce a fundraising campaign to attract graduates' funds.

In 2011 the joint undergraduate program of NES and Higher School of Economics accepted its first students. Most of them were winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian School Competitions in Economics. The program is aimed at providing world's quality bachelor's degree in economics.

The same year, NES Writing and Communications Center was established.

_{Meeting of the NES Undergraduate Student Council, 2012}

In 2011 NES Center for Demographic Research was founded. The most important product of the Center is the Russian database on fertility and mortality. Since 2016, the CDR has limited its activities to supporting this database.

In 2012 NES held a Research Conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the School. Among the keynote speakers there were distinguished economists Olivier Blanchard and Roger Myerson (2007 Nobel Prize in Economics Winner). Also, a series of public lectures "Classics of Economics" was organized as part of anniversary event.

_{Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)}

_{Olivier Blanchard (MIT)}

_{John Campbell (Harvard), Lecture at the Polytechnic Museum}

 

In 2013 Bulgarian economist and statesman Simeon Dyankov was appointed Rector of NES.

The same year NES received a Megagrant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation to create NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions (SCDSI) under the guidance of Shlomo Weber. The Center conducts research related to the impact of culture and diversity on the economic development of regions, allows students to participate in research activities and conducts summer schools.

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