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51%

Women

57

Nationalities represented

55% 

Student nationalities outside of Europe

22

Average age

48%

Post-bachelor's level

29%

Non-business background

*Total Summer School 2023 Profiles

Some Students' Home Academic Institutions in 2024

  • Vienna University, Austria
  • Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil 
  • McGill University, Canada
  • University of British Columbia, Canada
  • FUDAN University, China
  • Peking University, China,
  • Shanghai University, China
  • Sciences Po Paris, France
  • TUM Munich, Germany
  • HKUST, Hong Kong
  • Ashoka University, India
  • IITB Bombay, India
  • Bocconi University, Italy
  • LUISS Business School, Italy
  • University of Tokyo, Japan
  • University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • ESADE, Spain
  • IE Business School, Spain
  • University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • University of California, Berkeley, USA 
  • Cornell University, USA
  • HULT International BS, USA
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • London School of Economics, UK
  • London Business School, UK
  • University College London, UK
  • University of Cambridge, UK
  • University of Oxford, UK
     

Students

Summer school

Engaging in work that has a positive impact on society, and seeing my efforts inspire others and promote positive social change, is the driving force behind my academic and professional endeavors. In the future, I hope to become a sustainable finance...

Xuelian Tai

Summer School

Sustainable Finance & Investment

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Summer school

Before discovering this program, I was not familiar with summer courses, but now I am convinced that this format is great to dive into a subject, make new connections, and have a taste of a school.

 

Sustainability is not an option, but the...

Matteo Khan Chagnon

Summer School

Sustainable Finance & Investment

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Summer school

As someone with a deep curiosity to explore and understand the world, I have always sought experiences that immerse me in diverse cultures, perspectives, and ways of thinking. The HEC Paris Summer School gave me just that – and I was able to bring...

Camila Biazioli

Summer School

Sustainable Finance & Investment

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Summer school

As a student coming from a public policy background, this program provided a valuable window into the world of finance. The content of this course enabled me to build bridges between public and private sector modes of thinking.

 

Having taken an...

Chengzhi Xu

Summer School

Sustainable Finance & Investment

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Academic Team

Photo Layal NabhanLayal NABHAN has over twenty years of experience in the financial sector professional specialized in corporate and investment banking. She is currently Head of Sustainability for financial institutions and public sector, leading promotion and business development of Sustainable finance and ESG solutions for financial institutions globally across advisory, financing and investment businesses within a large French investment bank. 

Layal works on structuring innovative financial solutions to help her financial institutions clients (including banks, insurers, asset managers, pension funds and private markets) to accelerate their transition and meet their Net Zero decarbonization targets. 

Prior to banking, Layal started her career in business and management consulting. She has been involved in structuring and implementing large business transformation programs for several multinational corporate and investment banks. She has worked extensively within coverage, corporate finance, structured finance, and financial markets business lines. 

Since 2011, Layal is involved in energy finance academic research, her area of focus is power generation economics, energy finance and sustainable finance. She is an active member of the Energy & Finance Chair at HEC Paris lecturing regularly on energy & finance topics at HEC Paris, and Ecole Polytechnique l’X. Layal is a graduate from the American University of Beirut where she majored in electrical engineering. She also holds a master’s in international finance and a specialized certificate in Energy & Finance from HEC PARIS. 
 

Past Guest Speakers:

Jean-Michel GAUTHIER: International Energy Expert and Executive Director of the Energy & Finance Chair at HEC Paris.

Paul GRIMAL: Energy and Finance Analyst at the International Energy Agency

Oxana MEGGLE: Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)

Marta SIMOES: ESG and Investment Analyst at an asset management company

Dimitri MANSOUR: Sustainability Analyst in the banking sector