Last Thursday, March 3rd, five IE Master in Finance students won the CFA Research Challenge– Spain edition at the Bolsa de Madrid. This is the fifth time IE Business school ‘s team has won first place, setting it as the highest awarded school in this competition.
The winners made it to the Finals along with five other schools after a first evaluation of their reports. They will now join other European and World teams for the Regional and International Challenges in Chicago next month. We wish them all the best!
Congratulations to the winners: Carlos Fons (Spain), Leon Von Ullmann (Germany), Ron Sen (United Kingdom), Akshit Sandooja (India) and Gonzalo Alejandro Zuniga (Peru)!
About the author
Viet Ha Tran, Director of Admissions for Masters in Finance, IE Business School, Alumnus of IE Master in Marketing Management 2009. For the past 10 years, Ms. Tran is the Head of Admissions for the Finance Master Programs at IE Business School. She leads an international team of exceptional professionals who specialize in recruiting the best Finance talents to IE. Originally from Vietnam, she holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Ritsumeikan University (Japan) and a Master in Marketing Management from IE Business School. Before joining IE in Madrid, Ms. Tran worked for Japan Parker Group, Euromonitor International, and Mizuho Bank in Tokyo, Singapore and Hanoi respectively. Her fields of expertise include market intelligence, investment feasibility studies, trade finance, credit risk management, real estate consulting, government relations, and talent acquisition in the education sector. In 2017, combining her passion for art and education, Viet Ha co-founded I FEMME which is an art project aiming at raising funds in order to send girls who have no access to education to schools. Viet Ha believes that education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world and art is another way to change the perspective and inner vision of a person. She hopes that I FEMME will help changing lives of thousands of girls.