Beschreibung des Angebots

The One-Year MAS in Sustainable Finance and Development (60 ECTS) is a selective post-graduate programme focused on preparing students for employment in the financial sector, international organisations, NGOs and think tanks.

The programme combines training in the advanced empirical and analytical tools that are required for employment in the rapidly developing and high-demand field of ESG and impact investing. Most of the core courses of the programme are taught by the faculty of the International Economics Department and of the interdisciplinary programmes, and provide students with the necessary analytical skills and the transdisciplinary background they will need in order to apply the tools of sustainable finance to the world of socially responsible investments aimed at financing the SDG goals. 

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Required Courses (credited, ECTS in parentheses). 51 ECTS in total

• Climate Finance and Impact Investing, Beatrice Weder di Mauro (6)
• Sustainable Finance and Development, Nathan Sussman (6)
• Empirical Methods for Evidence-Based Policy Research, Imelda (6)
• Impact Investing, Uncertainty, and Rapid Economic Transition, Anna-Riikka Kauppinen (6)
• Foundations in Microeconomics, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (3)
• Corporate Finance, Ugo Panizza (3)
• Principles of Finance, Lilach Zacharia-Trabelsi (3)
• Sustainable Finance In Practice, Nathan Sussman & Dawid Bastiat-Jarosz (6)
• Social Finance for Sustainable Development, Anna-Riikka Kauppinen and Kristen McNeill (6)
• Foundations in Macroeconomics, Ugo Panizza (3)
• Intensive Nature Seminar (INS), Beatrice Weder di Mauro (3)

Required Workshops and Courses (non-credited)

• Stata Workshop
• Public Speaking Workshop
• Non-Financial Reporting Workshop
• Data and Text Analysis Using Python Course
• Capstone Workshop

Example of Elective Courses (credited, ECTS in parentheses, subject to availability). At least 9 ECTS in total 

• Financial Globalization: Patterns, Challenges and Policy Response, C. Tille (6)
• International Investment Law, N. Bernasconi, D. Bentolila, M. Potesta (6)
• Social Finance for Sustainable Development, A. Kauppinen & K. Mcneill (6)
• Economics of Development, C. Raisaro (6)
• Economic Development of Resource-Rich Countries, T. Moerenhout (6)
• Impact Evaluation, Jan Höffler (6)
• Applied Environmental Resource Economics, (6)
• Internship (3 ECTS) - Please contact Dr Dawid Bastiat-Jarosz (MAS Co-Director) and the Institute’s Career office for potential offers. 

Optional (non-credited)

• Summer Math Bootcamp
• Intensive Summer French course (for Beginners, A1 and A2 levels only)
• French Semester course (Autumn and Spring) (for Beginners, A1, A2 and B1 levels)
• Career Workhops (CV & Cover Letter, Networking, Interview preparation, LinkedIn)