Welcome as alumni!
When you complete your studies, you become one of our alumni (former students), and one of our most important ambassadors. You become part of a network offering valuable professional and social contacts. Keeping in touch with the School also helps you to continue your personal and professional development.
All alumni activities will be consolidated at the School from 1 January 2025.
The School of Business, Economics and Law and the independent alumni association Handels Vänner (formerly Handelshögskolans i Göteborg Alumnförening) have entered into a cooperation agreement which means that all alumni activities from 1 January 2025 will be managed by the School.
Everyone who has studied at the School of Business, Economics and Law is (free of charge) an alumnus/alumnae and an important and valuable target group for the School. We have been communicating with you alumni and inviting you to various events since the early 2000s. For over 90 years, the independent alumni association Handels Vänner has existed, where alumni could become members for a fee. Often, the school and Handels Vänner have collaborated and organised joint events.
Having alumni activities with two different organisers has been perceived as unclear. To make it clearer and simpler for our alumni, all alumni activities from 1 January 2025 will be organised by the School. With the addition of financial resources from Handels Vänner, the School’s range of alumni activities will be broadened. After the turn of the year, the association Handels Vänner will no longer be marketed.
Make sure you are included in the School’s alumni database!
For GDPR reasons, there will be no automatic transfer of Handels Vänner’s members to the School’s alumni database. For the same reasons, the School can only communicate with alumni who have actively registered in our database. To ensure you do not miss our newsletters and invitations, it is important that you make sure you are in the database and that your contact details are up to date.
Click here to register in the alumni database, or to update your details
Network, career and lifelong learning
Our alumni activities aim to create value both for you as alumni and for the School. We want to remain part of your lifelong learning, and hope that you will share your knowledge and experience with future generations of students if and when opportunities arise.
Alumni relations involve contact and exchange between the School and its former students. There are numerous benefits to being an alumnus of the School and a member of our Alumni Network. These include:
- Invitations to alumni gatherings in Gothenburg, Stockholm and internationally (e.g. San Francisco and London).
- Invitations to topical lectures given by leading speakers and hosted by the School, both digitally and on site.
- Access to new research via digital publications and online resources.
- News about the School via our digital newsletter and regular posts on social media channels such as our LinkedIn page.
- Opportunity to interact with researchers.
- Opportunity to keep in touch with fellow graduates and secure new contacts at alumni gatherings and digitally via our LinkedIn page.
- Access to our Career Portal and all its job vacancies, exclusive to the School, for up to two years after graduation.
- Help in recruiting new talent or students for thesis work, internships and so on via our Career Service.
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Register with the alumni database
To enable us to keep in touch with each other and make sure you don’t miss out on invitations and messages from us, you need to register with our alumni database. Also, do not forget to update your details, for example if you get a new e-mail address.
In 2019 the School of Business, Economics and Law and the rest of the University of Gothenburg launched a new joint alumni database. Even if you have received messages from us before, for GDPR (an EU data protection law) reasons you need to go into our new database and confirm your personal details.
As part of the School’s commitment to sustainability, we are increasingly sending out information electronically. To make sure you don’t miss out on anything, it is important that you enter your e-mail address in the database. The data you submit to the database will only be used by us within the University of Gothenburg.
Being a School of Business, Economics and Law alumnus is entirely free of charge.
About the alumni database
The University of Gothenburg’s alumni database is password protected and shared across the whole university. You need to register in order to stay in contact with us.
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Stockholm Alumni Event – 17 October
Welcome to our annual Alumni Evening in Stockholm, with Oskar Broberg, Vice Dean for education and Associate Professor in Economic History.
This event is held at PwC, Associate Partner to the School.
Oskar Broberg will be giving a presentation of his research on the topic Bitcoin, bits and other “money-ish" concepts – how digitalisation not only is changing how we use money but also how innovative concepts of money changes society.
Johan Rippe, Partner Assurance, PwC Sweden, will give the introductory remark.
As always, the event will be an opportunity for you to connect and reconnect with other alumni. We will offer wraps and beverage and give you time to chat with the other attendees prior to as well as following the talk.
Date & time: 17 Oct, 17:30-20:00
Venue: Torsgatan 21, entrance via PwC reception to the Auditorium, Stockholm
Max capacity: 70 guests
Event programme
17:30 Mingle and refreshments
18:00 Welcome introductory remarks by Johan Rippe
18:10 Talk by Oskar Broberg
18:45 Q&A
19.00 Updates from the Student Union, HHGS
19:10 Mingle
Event ends at 20:00
London Alumni Event – 30 April
At the School's alumni event in London former students now living in the UK could meet up and network. Viktor Elliot, Senior Lecturer and financial researcher at the School, spoke on the topic of Sustainability and Digitalization in Banking and Finance. Svenska Handelsbanken's (senior partner to the School and hosts of the event) CFO Martin Björnberg talked about the bank's work with these issues. Thank you all for making the event such a success!
Pub Night, 2024-04-12
A night to remember! Handelspuben opened its doors to alumni for an evening with pubquiz, old friends and memories from the student days.
Event was co-hosted with Handels Vänner and HHGS.
Alumni meeting Stockholm 2023-10-19
60 alumni attended when Marie Stenseke spoke about biodiversity, followed by a panel discussion in which representatives from Handels Vänner and SEB participated.
Want to organise your own alumni event?
Does your year-group have a major anniversary coming up? We can help you track down your old coursemates, arrange a visit to the School, offer tips on reunions and more. Contact ingmarie.karlgren@handels.gu.se
Professional coaching for alumni
Free career sessions for alumni with a professional coach from the School of Business, Economics and Law. Email us at career-service@handels.gu.se.
GU Executive Education offers a part-time Executive MBA programme over two years, bespoke courses and open programmes.
Recruit our students
Our Career Service offers employers a great way to get in contact with current students. You can advertise job vacancies free of charge and even submit proposals for thesis work. The School’s Partnership Programme provides additional opportunities in the area of employer branding.
Partnership Programme
The School’s Partnership Programme brings together private and public sector organisations in a long-term collaboration that adds value for both the partner organisation and the School. International companies and organisations are most welcome to join this programme!
Find a new job
As alumni of the School of Business, Economics and Law, you have access to our Career Portal for two years after graduating. This is where the School’s partners and other employers advertise job opportunities, generally aimed at relatively recent graduates. To gain access to the Career Portal, you need to sign up with the School’s Career Service.
You can also post vacancies to our students and newly graduates free of charge. Advertise job vacancies here.
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