page_title: New Economic School
section_title: Alumni and students
hierarchical_section_title: New Economic School / Alumni and students
caption_attribution_description: President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the New Economic School graduation in Gostinny Dvor, Russia, July 7, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is in the public domain from a copyright perspective, so while restrictions such as personality or privacy rights may apply, in general, manipulations are allowed.
context_page_description: New Economic School is a school of economics in Moscow, Russia.
context_section_description: 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 (such as Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Yale University, Northwestern University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the London Business School, and the University of Toulouse).
  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, Ksenia Yudaeva, Bank of Russia First Deputy Governor, Konstantin Sonin, professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Oleg Itskhoki, 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.
caption: President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the New Economic School graduation in Gostinny Dvor, Moscow, July 7, 2009
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