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May 2010

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) founded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC, www.eerc.kiev.ua) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (www.pinchukfund.org) is a world-class institution with support from international and local donors. It is an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence that ranks with the best schools in Central and Eastern Europe, is competitive on the world market, in both economic education and research, and produces the future generation of economists in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries.

The Kyiv School of Economics offers an internationally recognized two-year, full time English language Master’s Program with focus on Economic Analysis and Financial Economics. The program is taught by international and Western-trained Ukrainian faculty with a strong research background. The program curriculum is modelled on the best economic and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an unrivalled access to the world economics literature and various informational resources.

CONTENTS

• KSE Open Lectures
• Business Presentations at KSE
• KSE Resume Book
• KSE Executive Courses
• Recent Successes of KSE Graduates and Students
• Recent Media Publications by KSE Faculty
• KSE Sponsors
• KSE Founders

KSE Open Lectures

On a regular basis, KSE brings to Ukraine well-known economists to give the Open Lectures. The goal of the events is to enlarge economic knowledge among students, policy-makers and media. This is a list of recent Open Lectures:

May 11, 2010: Open Lecture by Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Prof. Calomiris on financial crises in emerging markets, their causes, propagation, and policy responses.

April 26, 2010: Open Lecture by Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan on social insurance reforms and labor markets in Central and East Europe.

April 12, 2010: Open Lecture by Daniel L. Rubinfeld, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, on the markets for on-line markets for advertising (with an emphasis on the growth and success of Google).

February 25, 2010: Open Lecture by Dr. Thierry Post, Cass Business School Lecture on “Deal or No Deal? Decision Making Under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show” with financial support from “Slavutich”, Carlsberg Group.

If you are interested to participate in KSE Open Lectures please click here or register at www.kse.org.ua.


Business Presentations at KSE

We regularly invite companies to give presentations to KSE students on topics in which their company has relevant experience. Such lectures bring 'real life' examples and experience to the KSE classroom.

So far, the following companies have already given such presentations at KSE:

• Bain & Company
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• SEB Bank
• SEB Life Ukraine
• Phoenix Capital
• TAS Group

We also invite company HRs to make presentations for KSE students about career opportunities at their company and send us information about the openings to be distributed to KSE students and graduates.

If you are interested in giving presentations at KSE or/and distribute information about the vacancies available at your company please contact Svitlana Bocharova at bocharova@eerc.kiev.ua or telephone: 492-8012.

KSE Resume Book

After earning their master’s degrees, KSE alumni are well prepared to work as economists and analysts with international banks, consulting, investment, and audit firms, government agencies, research organizations and policymaking institutions. They are excellent professionals, have unique skills in economic modelling and analysis, and are in high demand both on the international and on the local job market.

There is a book of resumes of KSE students who are on track to graduate in June 2010. By giving you this preview of this new generation of economists who will be entering the job market in the next months, we hope to give you the opportunity to be among the first companies to approach them and beat your competitors in the hunt for talent.

If you need more information about KSE students and graduates, please feel free to contact Svitlana Bocharova via e-mail: bocharova@eerc.kiev.ua or telephone: 492-8012.


KSE Executive Course

KSE has recently started to offer the executive courses to the representatives of business. The list of recent courses is the following:

•  A master class on Anti Trust Law by Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley)
•  A course on Financial Economics by Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School).

In addition, SimCorp, an IT firm that develops trading, accounting and pricing software for investment banks, has expressed interest in lectures on financial instruments. After a successful test lecture on total return swaps by KSE Assistant Professor, Olesia Verchenko, at the beginning of April, SimCorp signed up for a series of monthly lectures, with the first one taking place in the middle of June. The lecture will be devoted to the US mortgage-backed securities with illustrations of trading, settlement and pricing procedures using SimCorp Dimensions software.

If you need more information about KSE students and graduates, please feel free to contact Svitlana Bocharova via e-mail: bocharova@eerc.kiev.ua or telephone: 492-8012.


Recent Successes of KSE Graduates and Students

Recent alumni and students successes include:

• Seventy-two KSE alumni have been awarded Ph.D. degrees abroad
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko, KSE'2001, PhD, University of Michigan, and currently Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, received the first Russian National Prize on Applied Economics for his paper "Myth and reality of flat tax reform: micro estimates of tax evasion response and welfare effects in Russia" which was published in the Journal of Political Economy. His paper is available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w13719.pdf
• Maxym Kryshko, KSE'2001, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, has joined the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC) as an Economist
• Sergiy Stetsenko, KSE'2003, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, has recently been appointed as Senior Economist, Moody's, USA
• Maksym Obrizan, KSE'2002, PhD, University of Iowa, has accepted the position of Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)
• A KSE team consisting of 5 second-year students (Sergiy Golovko, Maryna Dzhumyga, Igor Buinyi, Ievgen Bobykin, and Pavlo Bandura) received the third prize at the Ukrainian final of the Global Management Challenge competition. 112 teams participated in this competition. To reach the final and get the third prize, the KSE students used econometrics, math and brainpower, and beat rival teams from leading Ukrainian companies.

Recent Media Publications by KSE Faculty

May 24, 2010: Interview with Charles Calomiris for Business

May 24, 2010: Interview with Charles Calomiris for Expert

April 1, 2010: Tom Coupé for Eizvestia: “Eliminating Big Bank Notes?”

March 22, 2010: Tom Coupé for www.finance.tochka.net: “Small Money, Big Problems”

February 17, 2010: Tom Coupé for Gazeta po-kievsky: “How the Very Best Are Selected"

February 15, 2010: Tom Coupé for Investgazeta: “The Prize is Right?”

February 15, 2010: Tom Coupé for Delo: “Advising Banks”

February 15, 2010: Tom Coupé for Eizvestia: “Another Chance for New Year Resolutions”

To read these articles please visit www.kse.org.ua

KSE Sponsors

A large number of Ukrainian and international corporations, foundations, and governments as well as the individuals, has supported KSE during the last years. We are very thankful to our donors:

Core Sponsors:

• Eurasia Foundation
• Victor Pinchuk Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA)
• The Global Development Network

Scholarships and Other Support Providers:

• Citigroup Foundation
• Concorde Capital
• Dragon Capital
• Finnish Embassy to Ukraine
• Kytasty Foundation
• SEB Bank
• Swedbank
• EERC/KSE Faculty
• EERC/KSE Alumni:
  • Alekseychick, Sergey (KSE’2001), FedEx, USA
  • Amialchuk, Aliaksandr (KSE’2002), University of Toledo, USA
  • Besedina, Olena (KSE’2000), KSE/KEI, Ukraine
  • Bisovetska, Inna (KSE’2006), Colliers International, Ukraine
  • Bisovetskyi, Viktor (KSE’2007), IFC TAS, Ukraine
  • Dedov, Maxym (KSE’2000), Citadel Investment Group Llc, USA
  • Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (KSE’2001), University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Fedzhora, Liliya (KSE’2000), Center for Operations Research, USA
  • Golodniuk, Inna (KSE’1999), Research, Canada
  • Korenok, Oleg (KSE’2000), Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
  • Kudina, Alina (KSE’1999), Warwick Business School, Great Britain
  • Lisenkova, Katerina (KSE’2002), Univeristy of Strathclyde, Great Britain
  • Lugovskyy, Volodymyr (KSE’1999), GA Tech, USA
  • Nizalova, Olena (KSE’2000), KSE/KEI, Ukraine
  • Norets, Andriy (KSE’2002), Princeton University, USA
  • Novoseltsky, Eduard (KSE’1999), International Finance Corporation, Russia
  • Novoseletska, Oksana (KSE’1999)
  • Piskounov, Kirill (KSE’2003), ILIM Group, Russia
  • Prokopovych, Pavlo (KSE’2000), KSE/KEI, Ukraine
  • Razanau, Aliaksei (KSE’2000), General Electric
  • Razanau, Marta (KSE’2000), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France
  • Shvydko, Tetyana (KSE’2001), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Sobko, Yuliya (KSE’2004), PBN, Ukraine
  • Suholov, Pavlo (KSE’1999), Transfer Pricing, Canada
  • Tsyrennikov, Victor (KSE’2002), Cornell University, USA
  • Verchenko, Olesia (KSE’2000), KSE/KEI, Ukraine
  • Volosonych, Vadym (KSE’2000), Florida Atlantic University, USA
  • Yuzefovych, Oleh (KSE’2004), Alfa Capital, Ukraine

and others.


KSE Founders

Economics Education and Research Consortium
Victor Pinchuk Foundation

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February 2010

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) founded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC, www.eerc.kiev.ua) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (www.pinchukfund.org) is a world-class institution with support from international and local donors. It is an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence that ranks with the best schools in Central and Eastern Europe, is competitive on the world market, in both economic education and research, and produces the future generation of economists in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries.

The Kyiv School of Economics offers an internationally recognized two-year, full time English language Master’s Program with focus on Economic Analysis and Financial Economics. The program is taught by international and Western-trained Ukrainian faculty with a strong research background. The program curriculum is modelled on the best economic and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an unrivalled access to the world economics literature and various informational resources.

CONTENTS

KSE OPEN ACADEMIC LECTURES AND MASTER CLASSES

Upcoming Open Academic Lectures:

February 25, 2010: Thierry Post, Visiting Professor of Finance, Cass Business School (UK), on “Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show”

April 12, 2010: Daniel Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, Professor of Economics, School of Law University of California, Berkeley

May 10-14, 2010: Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.

Past Open Academic Lecture:

November 23, 2009: KSE Open Academic Lecture by Iikka Korhonen, Head of the Institute for Economies in Transition, Bank of Finland, on “Why Do Bad Things Happen to (Seemingly) Good Countries? Some First Empirical Evidence from the Recent Crisis.” The event was sponsored by the Finnish Embassy to Ukraine and co-organized with the European Business Association (EBA). Media support was provided by Den’.

Past Master Classes:

September 14-19, 2009: “Advanced Econometrics” by Dr. Matti Viren, University of Turku

August 31 - September 3, 2009: “Financial Econometrics” by Dr. Bent Sorensen, University of Houston.

To register to participate in KSE events please click here or visit www.kse.org.ua

COMPANY LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS AT KSE

We are looking for companies who would be willing to delegate one of their staff members to give a lecture to KSE students on topics in which their company has relevant experience. Such lectures bring 'real life' examples and experience to the KSE classroom.

So far, we have agreements with the following companies on giving lectures at KSE:

We also invite company HRs to make presentations for KSE students about career opportunities at their company.

If you are interested in giving lectures/presentations at KSE please contact Svitlana Bocharova at bocharova@eerc.kiev.ua

RECENT MEDIA PUBLICATIONS BY KSE FACULTY

EERC RESEARCH GRANT COMPETITIONS

The Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), a founder of the Kyiv School of Economics, announces its Spring 2010 Research Grant Competition. Proposals are solicited in the following five areas with relevance to current policy concerns in CIS:

We encourage proposals for policy-relevant research on the border of economics and other disciplines, such as political science, sociology, demography, geography and ecology.

The best research teams will be invited to present their projects at the EERC research workshop in June 2010 in Ukraine (tentatively planned for June 26-28). Heads of projects must attend the workshop in order to be considered for a grant.

Applications are to be submitted online by April 12, 2010.

This competition is funded by the Global Development Network. EERC is GDN's regional partner in the CIS countries.

If you are interested in becoming a partner of the EERC Research Grant Competition please contact Natalia Bystritskaya at nbystrytska@eerc.kiev.ua

In addition to that, from February 1, 2010 The World Bank Institute and EERC are pleased to announce a research competition on “The Economic Impact of Liberalization of Barriers to Trade in Services in the Europe and Central Asia Regions”.

The deadline for applications is April 16, 2010

To participate in the Research Grant Competition please send your applications to the e-mail: irina@eerc.kiev.ua (Irina Sobetskaya and Natalia Bystritskaya).

For information about other EERC activities please click here or visit www.eerc.ru


 

FIRST KSE ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

The KSE International Advisory Board is pleased to announce a first in the history of KSE. Tom Coupé and Valentin Zelenyuk have been promoted to the rank of associate professor. The International Advisory Board applied rigorous international standards to conclude that Coupé and Zelenyuk had earned these promotions. While teaching and service are important to such decisions, promotion to Associate Professor requires that each candidate establishes an international reputation in their areas of research. The International Advisory Board concluded that Tom Coupé has established such a reputation through his analyses of academic labor markets and Valentin Zelenyuk has done the same for his work in the econometrics of productivity analysis.


 

KSE SPONSORS

A large number of Ukrainian and international corporations, foundations, and governments as well as the individuals, has supported KSE during the last years. We are very thankful to our donors:

Core Sponsors:

Scholarships and Other Support Providers:

February 2009

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) founded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC, www.eerc.kiev.ua) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (www.pinchukfund.org) is a world-class institution with support from international and local donors. It is an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence that ranks with the best schools in Central and Eastern Europe, is competitive on the world market, in both economic education and research, and produces the future generation of economists in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries.

The Kyiv School of Economics offers an internationally recognized two-year, full time English language Master’s Program with focus on Economic Analysis and Financial Economics. The program is taught by international and Western-trained Ukrainian faculty with a strong research background. The program curriculum is modelled on the best economic and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an unrivalled access to the world economics literature and various informational resources.

Contents

• The 2008-09 student enrolment
• KSE student internship program
• University of Houston degree for KSE students
• Recent alumni successes. Alumni and faculty publications
• Upcoming KSE graduates. KSE Resume Book
• KSE Ph.D.s
• KSE upcoming events
• Belarus Economic Research and Outreach Center
• The 2007-08 KSE annual report
• New KSE location
• KSE donors
• Friends of KSE

The 2008-09 student enrolment

Thirty-five students enrolled in the fall of 2007 as the first group of KSE students, began their second year of studies in September 2008 and have been joined by 31 new students admitted in July 2008. Thus, the total enrollment now stands at 66 (including 6 students from Belarus, Moldova, and Georgia fully funded by SIDA and the Norwegian Government). The current MA students come from more than 23 cities and have undergraduate degrees in economics, finance and mathematics, as well as engineering, physics and even as philosophy and history. Forty-nine percent of the students are women; slightly less than a quarter is from Kyiv.

KSE student internship program

Every summer KSE students have a possibility to apply their knowledge of modern economics and finance in “real life” situations working as interns in various companies and international institutions.

We invite your company to consider the possibility to take KSE students for a summer internship. Our students have the following skills:

• Western-standard training in economic and financial modelling and analysis, which can be applied in business, finance, consulting, market research, industry, and in policy-making environments.
• Excellent knowledge of English, mathematics/statistics and modern economics
• Strong ability to work under time pressure, process large quantities of new information and obtain new skills in a short time
• A modern worldview.

During the internship period (July-August) students can work on a full time basis.

If you are interested in hosting our students as interns this summer please send us your request at bocharova@eerc.kiev.ua.

In your request please indicate the number of students that you are interested in, their required qualifications and a short description of the work you are expecting students to do during their internship.

University of houston degree for KSE students

The Kyiv School of Economics has an agreement with the University of Houston (USA) that allows KSE students to obtain, while studying at KSE, a Master’s degree of the University of Houston. Courses taken to receive the KSE certificate can simultaneously lead to an MA degree in Economics of the University of Houston, if the students meet the academic and administrative requirements of the University of Houston. The class of 2009 is the first class to receive degrees from the University of Houston.

Recent alumni successes

• Alina Slusarchuk, EERC'2008, has been appointed as an Associate in the Research Department of Institutional Sales and Trading Division of Morgan Stanley (London)
• According to the 2008 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey (Focus CIS), the analytical team of Concorde Capital has been recognized as the best analytical team in Ukraine. The leaders of the team are Vladimir Nesterenko, EERC/KSE’2004, and Alexander Parashiy, EERC/KSE’2004
• Viacheslav Sheremirov, EERC2008, has been accepted to the PhD Program in Economics of the University of California, Berkeley

KSE alumni and faculty publish their articles in local media and reputable international journals. For a full list of media and academic publications by our graduates and faculty, please click here.

Upcoming KSE graduates. KSE resume book

In June 2009, KSE will be graduating its 12th class (35 students) who are now ready to work as economists and analysts in industry, international banks, consulting, investment, and audit firms, government agencies, research organizations and policymaking institutions. All of them are professionals that have unique skills in economic modelling and analysis.

If you are interested in hiring KSE graduates we would be happy to provide you with a book of student resumes. The resumes are also available on-line at: http://www.kse.org.ua/people/students.htm

KSE Ph.D.s

Totally, forty-six KSE alumni have now defended Ph.D. dissertations. Of these, 6 are KSE full-time faculty. In the coming year KSE anticipates at least 5 more Ph.D.s being awarded to its alumni.

KSE upcoming events

March 16, 2009, 13.00
KSE Campus, room 207, Yakira 13

• KSE Open Academic Lecture by Stefano Capodagli, Chairman of Initiative Group “Circle of Friends of Ukraine”, and Bogdan Povoroznyk, member of Initiative Group Circle of Friends of Ukraine, KSE'2006

Stefano Capodagli and Bogdan Povoroznyk will talk on “Economic and Financial Crisis in Ukraine in 2009: How Many Corporates Will Remain Solvent?” Using a sample of more than 2000 Ukrainian companies operating in the manufacturing sector over seven years, they examine the financial vulnerability by analyzing the relation between macroeconomic indicators and companies financial ratios. The analysis shows that macroeconomic conditions have a strong effect on debt service capacity.

March 30, 2009, 9.30-17.00
KSE Campus, room 207, Yakira 13

• KSE Annual Student Conference on “The World Economic and Financial Crisis: What We Learn”

Students from different regions of Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova will present their research papers and essays dedicated to the economics and financial crisis. A jury of KSE faculty members will select winners in each category, who will be awarded with monetary prizes.

March 30, 2009, 18.00
“Radisson SAS”, Yaroslaviv Val 22

• KSE Open Academic Lecture by Anthony Shorrocks, Director of UNU-Wider, Helsinki

Professor Shorrocks is a leading expert on the analysis and measurement of poverty and inequality. He will talk on “The Changing Pattern of Global Wealth Ownership”

April 1, 2009, 18.00
Place to be announced

• KSE Open Academic Lecture by Robert Pindyck, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance in the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, U.S.A.)

Dr. Robert S. Pindyck has published numerous academic journal articles, and is the author of several books, including three famous textbooks “Microeconomics”, “Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts”, and “Investment Under Uncertainty.” He will talk on “Real Options.”

April 14, 2009, time to be announced
Place to be announced

• KSE Open Academic Lecture by David H.Reiley (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996), Arizona Public Service Professor of Economics, University of Arizona and Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research

At Yahoo, Dr. Reiley measured the effects of advertising on sales through a controlled experiment on Yahoo! display advertising.

To participate, please register at www.kse.org.ua.

Belarus economic research and outreach center

KSE has recently received funding from SIDA and the Eurasia Foundation to open the Belarus Economic Research and Outreach Center. The Center’s activities will include research and outreach projects related to the development of Belarusian economy.

Please read more: http://beroc.eerc.kiev.ua

The 2007-08 KSE annual report

You can find the 2007-08 KSE annual report with the details on various KSE activities at KSE_Annual_Report_2007-2008.

KSE new location

Since February, the Kyiv School of economics is located at the new address – vul. Yakira 13. The location details can be found at www.kse.org.ua

KSE donors

A large number of Ukrainian and international corporations has supported KSE during the last years. Their support allows KSE to cover the cost of students’ education at KSE. We are very thankful to our donors:

KSE Core Donors:

• Victor Pinchuk Foundation
• Eurasia Foundation
• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Open Society Institute
• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA)

KSE Scholarships and Other Support Providers:

• Citigroup Foundation
• Concorde Capital
• Dragon Capital
• Kytasty Foundation
• Swedbank
• Tetra Pak Ukraine
• TNK-BP in Ukraine
• SEB Bank
• US Embassy to Ukraine
• EERC Faculty and Alumni

Friends of KSE

The Kyiv School of Economics invites your company to join the “Friends of KSE” project.

“Friends of KSE” is an association of KSE’s most generous supporters – all dedicated to fulfilling and enhancing the university’s mission to promote world-class economics education and research.

The Friends of KSE receive invitations to all KSE events, including the KSE Public Lectures and their contributions are acknowledged in all KSE promotional materials and on the KSE web site. In addition, they receive each year, in March, the KSE yearbook with CVs of all KSE students & faculty, thus having first access to the KSE students, graduates and faculty members. The Friends of KSE also receive full access to the KSE Library and its comprehensive informational resources in economics, finance, and business.

There are several ways to become a “Friend of KSE” member, each way offering different opportunities to support a specific goal.

If you would like to get more information how to become a friend of KSE, please click here.

KSE founders

Economics Education and Research Consortium
Victor Pinchuk Foundation

May 2008

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) founded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC, www.eerc.kiev.ua) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (www.pinchukfund.org) is a world-class institution with support from international and local donors. It is an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence that ranks with the best schools in Central and Eastern Europe, is competitive on the world market, in both economic education and research, and produces the future generation of economists in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries.

The Kyiv School of Economics offers an internationally recognized two-year, full time English language Master’s Program with focus on Financial Economics, Economic Policy and Economics of Firms and Markets. The program is taught by international and Western-trained Ukrainian faculty with a strong research background. The program curriculum is modelled on the best economic and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an unrivalled access to the world economics literature and various informational resources.

Contents

• KSE student internship program
• Upcoming KSE graduates
• KSE Public Lectures
• KSE Master Classes
• KSE cooperation with foreign universities
• Recent alumni successes
• Corporate donors
• Friends of KSE

KSE student internship program

Every summer KSE students have a possibility to apply their knowledge of modern economics and finance in “real life” situations working as interns in various companies and international institutions.

We invite your company to consider the possibility to take KSE students for a summer internship. Our students have the following skills:

• Western-standard training in economic and financial modelling and analysis, which can be applied in business, finance, consulting, market research, industry, and in policy-making environments.
• Excellent knowledge of English, mathematics/statistics and modern economics
• Strong ability to work under time pressure, process large quantities of new information and obtain new skills in a short time
• A modern worldview.

During the internship period (July-August) students can work on a full time basis.

If you are interested in hosting our students as interns this summer please send us your request at info@kse.org.ua. In your request please indicate the number of students that you are interested in, their required qualifications and a short description of the work you are expecting students to do during their internship.

Upcoming KSE graduates

In June 2008 EERC/KSE is graduating its 11th class of students who are now ready to work as economists and analysts in international banks, consulting, investment, and audit firms, government agencies, research organizations and policymaking institutions. All of them are professionals that have unique skills in economic modelling and analysis.

If you are interested in hiring KSE graduates we would be happy to provide you with a book of student resumes. The resumes are also available on-line at: http://www.kse.org.ua/people/students.htm.

KSE Public Lectures

On a regular basis, the Kyiv School of Economics organizes the KSE Public Lectures for Ukraine's political and business community, bringing world-known scientists, economists, politicians and public figures to Ukraine. The goal of these events is to enlarge the debates on the topics most relevant for Ukraine.

Recent Public Lectures include:

April 8, 2008
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner for Peace. “Fighting Poverty”

May 15, 2008
Mr. Kofi Annan, the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. “Challenges Facing Ukraine and the World”

If you want to get more information about the KSE Public Lectures click here.
If your have recently changed your contact information please send us email by clicking here.

KSE Master Classes

The goal of the KSE Master Classes is to spread modern economic knowledge throughout the society. The attendees are policy-makers, business analysts, academicians, and students. The following Master Classes have recently been organized:

• KSE Master Class on “Understanding International Energy Markets” held on March 12, 14, 19, and 21. The course was funded by TNK-BP in Ukraine.
• KSE Master Class on “Program and Policy Evaluation” held on April 21-25. The course was funded by the Global Development Network (GDN).

KSE cooperation with foreign universities and institutions  

The Kyiv School of Economics has an agreement with the University of Houston (USA) that allows KSE students to obtain, while studying at KSE, a Master's degree of the University of Houston. Courses taken to receive the KSE certificate can simultaneously lead to a MA degree in Economics of the University of Houston, if the students meet the academic and administrative requirements of the University of Houston. Up to 3 students can, after the first year, be invited by the University of Houston to start their Ph.D. degree in Houston.

KSE has launched a cooperation program with CERGE-EI, a Western-style doctoral program in Prague (www.cerge-ei.cz). KSE has coordinated its course content with this program, giving a possibility to graduates of the KSE M.A. Program to start immediately in the second year of the doctoral program of CERGE-EI. Moreover, CERGE-EI allows the KSE students, after they finish the second year of Ph.D. studies, to return to Ukraine to finish their doctoral research at the Kyiv School of Economics.

Every year, a group of KSE students visit the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) of the Stockholm School of Economics with one week internship tour. During the tour students have an excellent opportunity to investigate the PhD program at the Stockholm School of Economics, to meet with the economic faculty and SITE researchers, and to participate in the school’s activities. This fall a group of the best KSE students will visit the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).

The Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv Economics Institute (KEI), and Telenor (Norway) have recently established a new project – a PhD Scholarship in Network Economics at the Norwegian School of Management BI, funded by Telenor.

Recent alumni successes

Among the recent alumni successes are:

• Ivan Yuryk, EERC’2004, has been appointed as Head of Analytical Group and Advisor to Minister of Finance, Victor Pynzenyk
• Bogdan Povoroznyk, EERC’2004, has been appointed as Economic Analyst at the Office of Chief Economist, EBRD
• Oleksii Orlov, KSE first-year student, became a first-place winner of the Foyil Securities “Future Business Leaders of Ukraine” contest
• Alina Slusarchuk, EERC'2008, has been appointed as an Associate in the Research Department of Institutional Sales and Trading Division of Morgan Stanley (London)
• According to the 2008 Thomson Reuters Extel Survey (Focus CIS), the analytical team of Concorde Capital has been recognized as a best analytical team in Ukraine. The leaders of the team are Vladimir Nesterenko, EERC’2004, and Alexander Parashiy, EERC’2004.

KSE alumni and faculty publish their articles in local media and reputable international journals. For a full list of media and academic publications by our graduates and graduates, please click here.

KSE corporate donors

A large number of Ukrainian and international corporations has supported KSE during the last years. Their support allows KSE to cover the cost of students’ education at KSE. We are very thankful to our donors:

KSE Core Donors:

• Victor Pinchuk Foundation
• Eurasia Foundation
• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Open Society Institute
• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA)
• The World Bank

KSE Scholarships and Other Support Providers:

• Citigroup Foundation
• Concorde Capital
• Dragon Capital
• Kytasty Foundation
• TAS Kommerzbank
• Tetra Pak Ukraine
• TNK-BP in Ukraine
• SEB Bank
• US Embassy to Ukraine
• EERC Faculty and Alumni

Friends of KSE

The Kyiv School of Economics invites your company to join “Friends of KSE” project.

“Friends of KSE” is an association of KSE’s most generous supporters – all dedicated to fulfilling and enhancing the university’s mission to promote world-class economics education and research.

The Friends of KSE receive invitations to all KSE events, including the KSE Public Lectures and their contributions are acknowledged in all KSE promotional materials and on the KSE web site. In addition, they receive each year, in March, the KSE yearbook with CVs of all KSE students & faculty, thus having first access to the KSE students, graduates and faculty members. The Friends of KSE also receive full access to the KSE Library and its comprehensive informational resources in economics, finance, and business.

There are several ways to become a ‘Friend of KSE’ member, each way offering different opportunities to support a specific goal.

If you would like to get more information how to become a friend of KSE, please click here.

November 2007

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) founded by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC, www.eerc.kiev.ua) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation(www.pinchukfund.org) is a world-class institution with support from international and local donors. It is an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence that ranks with the best schools in Central and Eastern Europe, is competitive on the world market, in both economic education and research, and produces the future generation of economists in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries.

The Kyiv School of Economics offers an internationally recognized two-year, full time English language Master’s Program with focus on Financial Economics, Economic Policy and Economics of Firms and Markets. The program is taught by international and Western-trained Ukrainian faculty with a strong research background. The program curriculum is modelled on the best economic and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe. Students are provided with an unrivalled access to the world economics literature and various informational resources.

Contents

• KSE students and graduates
• Recent alumni successes
• KSE Public Lectures
• KSE faculty publications in media
• Corporate donors
• Friends of KSE

KSE students and graduates

The Kyiv School of Economics currently provides western standards graduate education in economics to 95 students. Besides a majority of students who are Ukrainian citizens, we have 5 students from Belarus, 4 students from Moldova, and 2 students from Georgia.

More than half of the students receive full scholarships funded by KSE donors and founders. These scholarships are based on merit. Some of the students receive partial scholarships, with a possibility of deferred tuition based on need.

At the moment, EERC/KSE has 367 graduates. The graduates’ placement can be summarized as following:

• 51% of graduates work for the private sector (finance, banking, consulting, investment, industry)
• 22% of graduates occupy policy-related positions (international organizations, think tanks, and government)
• 27% of graduates continue their studies in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, primarily in doctoral programs in economics.

Thirty EERC graduates have already received a Ph.D. degree from western universities.

Recent alumni successes

Among the recent alumni successes are:

• Yuriy Gorodnichenko, EERC’2004, is now teaching as assistant professor at the
  University of California, Berkeley 
• Andriy Norets, EERC’2002, is now teaching as assistant professor at  
  Princeton University
• Victor Tsyrennikov, EERC’2002, is now teaching as assistant professor at  
  Cornell University

Recently, Oleksandr Parashiy, EERC’2004, has been voted the 'Leading Pan-European Investment Analyst - European Emerging Markets' by the Thomson-Extel Surveys. In addition, 4 other graduates were ranked highly in this list: Volodymyr Nesterenko, EERC'2004, ranked as #3'; Olga Pankiv, EERC'1999 ranked as #11; Olena Bilan, EERC'2002 ranked as #20; and Taisiya Shepetko, EERC'2004, ranked as #21. See more at: http://www.concorde.com.ua/press-room/.

KSE Public Lectures

On a regular basis, the Kyiv School of Economics organizes the KSE Public Lectures for Ukraine's political and business community, bringing world-known scientists, economists, politicians and public figures to Ukraine. The goal of these events is to enlarge the debates on the topics most relevant for Ukraine.

The recent Public Lectures include:

October 8, 2007
James Wolfensohn, Former President of the World Bank. “Ukraine in a Four Speed World”

October 24, 2007
General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.), Former US Secretary of State. “Democracy and Global World Challenges.”

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KSE faculty publications in media

KSE faculty are very active in doing academic research and publishing in both leading academic journals and local media. The goal is to have an impact on not only Western academia but also on the Ukrainian society.

For a full list of media and academic publications by our faculty, please click here.

KSE corporate donors

A large number of Ukrainian and international corporations has supported KSE during the last years. Their support allows KSE to cover the cost of students’ education at KSE. We are very much thankful to our donors:

KSE Core Donors:

• The Victor Pinchuk Foundation
• Eurasia Foundation
• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Open Society Institute
• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA)
• System Capital Management
• The World Bank

KSE Scholarships and Other Support Providers:

• Citigroup Foundation
• Chumak Ukraine
• Dragon Capital
• Industrial Union of Donbas
• Kytasty Foundation
• SEB Bank
• Soyuz-Victan
• TAS Kommerzbank
• Tetra Pak Ukraine
• US Embassy to Ukraine
• EERC Faculty and Alumni

Friends of KSE

The Kyiv School of Economics announces the establishment of a new project – “The Friends of KSE.”

“The Friends of KSE” is an association of KSE’s most generous supporters – all dedicated to fulfilling and enhancing the university’s mission to promote world-class economics education and research.

The Friends of KSE receive invitations to all KSE events, including the KSE Public Lectures and their contributions are acknowledged in all KSE promotional materials and on the KSE web site. In addition, they receive each year, in February, the KSE yearbook with CVs of all KSE students & faculty, thus having first access to the KSE students, graduates and faculty members. The Friends of KSE also receive full access to the KSE Library and its comprehensive informational resources in economics, finance, and business.

There are several ways to become a "Friend of KSE" member, each way offering different opportunities to support a specific goal.

If you would like to get more information how to become a friend of KSE, please click here.

KSE Founders

Economics Education and Research Consortium
Victor Pinchuk Foundation