USI in the U.S. Alumni Night
Date and time
Location
WeWork Charging Bull, 9th Floor
25 Broadway New York, NY 10004Description
Join the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) for its first alumni gathering across the Atlantic!
The event, organized with the support of swissnex Boston and its New York Outpost, aims to strengthen the connection between USI and its former students who have made the leap to the United States. After a brief introduction about USI and its current developments by Prof. Paul Schneider (USI, Faculty of Economics) and Silvia Invrea (USI, Head of Career and Alumni Service), the floor will be given to a few USI alumni to recount their career path after graduation.
A networking reception will conclude the evening.
Alumni and current students from other Swiss institutions of higher education are also invited to join.
Program
6.00pm Doors open
6.30pm Introductory remarks by Prof. Paul Schneider (USI) & Silvia Invrea (USI)
6.45pm Talks by USI Alumni, followed by networking reception
9.00pm Doors close
Dr. Paul Schneider - Associate Professor, USI Faculty of Economics
Paul Schneider graduated in 2006 from the University of Vienna with a PhD in finance. After a post-doctoral position in Vienna he joined the University of Warwick in 2008 as Assistant Professor. In January 2012 he will be appointed Senior Assistant Professor in quantitative methods at the Faculty of economics, USI. Dr. Schneider’s research interests include financial econometrics, statistical methods, and asset pricing. His work has been published in the Annals of Statistics and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other international journals. He has been teaching computational finance, term structure modeling, and financial risk management at the Bachelor to the PhD level.
Silvia Invrea - Head of Career and Alumni service, USI
In 2011, Silvia Invrea was on sabbatical at the Alumni Office of the Columbia Business School in New York, after 15 years of experience in the human resources and international relations fields. For 7 years, she worked at the Bocconi University in Milan, where she first took care of their international programs, helping to create and start the CEMS Master, and later on she started the Fundraising and Company Relationship program. She then moved on to Bain & Company in Milan, a strategic management consultancy firm, where she was HR Director for 4 years; she collaborated with the ISPI (Institute of International Policy Studies) in Milan where she developed the project “Focus China” and she also took care of the Italian startup of Sapient, the Internet Architecture multinational company, as Head of HR and Recruiting.
Alumni speakers
Francesca Lamanna, Senior Economist, World Bank, Washington DC (Economics Quadriennium '02)
Matthew Matthew, Self-Employed Trader, Chicago (MSc in Management '15)
Rebecca Tekula, Executive Director and Assistant Professor, Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University, New York City (PhD in Economics '09)
Julian von der Schulenburg, Architect and Principal, Julian von der Schulenburg LLC, New York City (MSc in Architecture '04)
About Università della Svizzera italiana
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 certified public universities in Switzerland and member of swissuniversities. USI is organized in five faculties and is active in several study and research areas: architecture, communication sciences, computational science, data science, economics, health studies, humanities, informatics, medicine, and biomedicine. USI is a young and lively university, a hub of opportunity open to the world where students are offered a quality interdisciplinary education in which they can be fully engaged and take center stage, and where our researchers can count on having the space to freely pursue their initiative.
Around 3000 students and about 800 professors and researchers, hailing from over 100 countries, convene every day on the three campuses in Lugano, Mendrisio and Bellinzona. The relatively small size of the campuses encourages the free flow and open exchange of ideas within the academic community. USI encourages faculty, students, and researchers to develop their potential, and appreciates their curiosity and willingness to experiment with new ways of teaching, thinking, and working. Established in 1996, USI is in constant evolution, always taking on new challenges while remaining true to its three guiding principles: quality, openness, and responsibility.
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