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MSc Marketing: Student Reps - Claire Petras, Xiu-Ying Chia Best Dissertation - Fenruo Wang Best Overall Performance - Peiyue Guo
A dusting of snow covered Durham on Friday 15 January when the latest Business School students graduated. The ceremony took place in Durham Cathedral before the graduates and their friends and families returned to the Business School at Mill Hill Lane for a celebration event and special awards for outstanding students. At the 12 noon ceremony in the Cathedral, Dr Mathew Hughes received a staff award for excellence acknowledging his contribution to the supervision of PhD students at DUBS. The committee was impressed by his enthusiasm for supporting and developing his students’ research and his commitment to the academic and personal development of all his students.
ALUMNI NEWS
MSc Finance Programmes: Student Reps Ms Yan Cao (Finance & Investment) Mr Dion Murtagh (Finance & Investment) Mr Fanqi Xu (Finance & Investment) Mr Mingdi Deng (Accounting & Finance) Mr Lyubomir Dilov (Accounting & Finance) Mr Dian Li (Accounting & Finance) Mr Joannes Lammersdorf (Corporate & International Finance) Mr Zeeshan Quader (Economics & Finance) Ms Shen Wang (International Banking & Finance) Mr Sebastian Seidens (International Money, Finance & Investment) Ms Boyu Wang (Finance) Best Dissertation - Dimitar Bogoev Best Overall Performance - Kaveh Salehzadeh Nobari Outstanding Performance: Nan Mi - Finance Ruoxi Fu - Accounting & Finance Thing Tran - Corporate & International Finance Supita Wipatikpaisal - International Money, Finance and Investment Xinwei Shen - International Banking & Finance Kaveh Salehzadeh Nobari - Economics & Finance Xin Sheng - Finance & Investment Stocktrak Certificates (Spring Challenge): Tsvetelina Shterev - Portfolio Manager of the Year (first place) Dion Murtagh - Portfolio Manager of the Year (first place) Xuewen Jiang - Portfolio Manager of the Year (second place) Qiyi Su - Portfolio Manager of the Year (third place)
Yuting Zhou - Investor of the Year (Stocktrak Spring Challenge fourth place) Qi Li - Investor of the Year (Stocktrak Spring Challenge fifth place) Stocktrak Spring Challenge – Certificate of Participation: Tristan Cossec, Yijun Zheng, Yusuf Ayturk Lyubomir Dilov, Yuling Chen, Yiheng Zhang, Daniel Salcedo-Sanchez, Jiwei Peng, Xiangyu Jia CFA Investment Research Challenge: Brett Saunders, Shan Lu, Xin Mao, Sebastian Seidens, Yusuf Yusifov Investment Club Members: Chad Knight, Daisy Ip, Daniel Osborn, Henry Frewer, Ivan Korshikov, Peter Florian, Red Laviste, Qiyi Su, Thomas Stagl, Xinwei Shen MSc Economics Programmes: Student Reps - Helena Brennan (Experimental Economics) Nevena Deligineva (Public Economics) Xiaoyou Huang (Economics) Christophe Iwanski (Economics) Yao Li (Economics) Trikal Patil (Economics) Outstanding Performance (per programme): Juyeon Lee - Economics Mariana Garro Olivares - Public Economics Ivan Korshikov - Experimental Economics Raisha Bashar - Environmental & Natural Resource Economics Best Dissertation - Michael Nower Best Overall Performance - Juyeon Lee MSc Islamic Finance Programmes: Student Reps - Mr Abdkulkadir Abshir (Islamic Finance & Management) Ms Vita Arumsari (Islamic Finance) Wahyu Jatmiko (Islamic Finance) Best Dissertation - (Islamic Finance) Hisham Jarrar, Muhammad Arsalan. (Islamic Finance & Management) Arman Mergaliyev
Best Overall Performance - (Islamic Finance) Ayse Aydin (Islamic Finance & Management) Arman Mergaliyev MSc Management Programmes: Student Reps Chenghao Wu (Management) Jinguyang Yan (Management Finance) Juri Zanieri (Management Finance) Syed Ali Akbar Rizvi (Management Entrepreneurship) Jiani Tan (Human Resource Management) Anil Joy (Human Resource Management) Best Dissertation - Oliver Burke Best Strategic Business Project Prabh Singh Best Average: Murray Galbraith-Lowe, Josh Kruse, Marte Wang, Yuanyuan Ping, Johannes Schmalisch, Xuan Hu, Claire Brasey Best Overall Performance: Murray Galbraith-Lowe Exec & Part-time Masters: Best Dissertation winner Anel Tulegenova Best overall average - Scott Mummery PhD Prize: Najib Mazhem - Best Thesis DBA Prize: Bernard Groen - Best Thesis Full-time MBA: Rahul Kaul - Student contribution Global MBA: Dominic Morgan - Highest average mark for the Global MBA (Finance) Nigel Thomas - Highest average mark for the Global MBA Nigel Thomas - Highest dissertation mark for the Global MBA