New Economic School


New Economic School is a school of economics in Moscow, Russia.

Academic programs

Economics of Energy and Natural Resources
Finance, investments, banks
Currently, 2150 young economists graduated from NES. 90% have a career in the private sector, mostly in international companies, investment banks, and consulting. 350 NES graduates went to continue their studies in PhD programs.
More than 80 PhDs work as economics faculty in the US and UK universities: MIT, Princeton University, Stanford, Yale, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, UPenn, NYU, LSE, LBS and others, in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; 29 PhDs have come back to Russia.
Among the most prominent NES alumni are Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation, , Bank of Russia First Deputy Governor, Konstantin Sonin, professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, , professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, Ilya Strebulaev, professor of finance at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Nikolay Storonsky, founder of Revolut Ltd, a financial technology company and many others.

Faculty and research

More than 90% of NES professors have PhDs in economics and finance from the leading universities, such as Harvard, MIT, Columbia, NYU, LBS, Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and others. New Economic School is the first Russian university that have started hiring professors from abroad. Interviews with the candidates is hold during annual conference ASSA in Economics and Finance.
These faculty members represent Russian economics in the global economics profession by participating in the international conferences and publishing in the leading international economics journals, including Econometrica, The American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, and the American Political Science Review.
There are several research centers at NES: the Center for Demographic Research, which was created in 2011, and the Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, established in 2013 in cooperation with the head researcher Professor Shlomo Weber, and the Center for Economic and Financial Research. In 2019, the Center for Research in Financial Technologies and Digital Economy SKOLKOVO-NES was founded.

Rankings

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In 2014, NES moved to a new campus at Skolkovo, built for the purposes of academic life, and combining modern auditoria with sports and recreation facilities.