Krea University’s Convocation 2025 witnessed the graduation of 400 students from across undergraduate, masters and doctoral programme. Professor Ram Ramaswamy, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad and Honorary Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi was the Chief Guest at the ceremony.
On June 14, Krea University hosted its fourth Convocation ceremony at The Music Academy, Chennai. The event witnessed the graduation of the UG Cohort of School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) (2025), the 2-year MBA Cohort of IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) (2025), the 3-year L&T MBA Cohort of IFMR GSB (2025) and the PhD Cohort of IFMR GSB (2025).
Krea University’s Convocation 2025 also witnessed the conferral of the of the Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D.Sc.), upon Professor Vivek Borkar, Emeritus Fellow, IIT Bombay, and the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (D.Litt.), upon Dr Geetanjali Shree, author and novelist.
The graduating students were conferred with degrees in the presence of Chancellor of Krea University, Lakshmi Narayanan along with members from the Governing Council and Board of Management at Krea such as Tara Thiagarajan, Roxana Daver, Paula Mariwala, Vidya Vencatesan, Amitava Saha, Kapil Viswanathan, S Mahalingam, and Rajeev Mecheri. Dean of SIAS, Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, Dean of Research, Professor Sivakumar Srinivasan and other faculty members were also present.
In his address to the graduates, Chancellor Lakshmi Narayanan said, “By the coming decade, we will see the liberal arts, the sciences and the management graduates at the forefront of industries that blend human intuition with technological prowess – where art meets algorithm, where creativity meets data science, and ethical reasoning grounds innovation. Whether in business, ecology, education, public service, the arts, or tech – you will be there, making a difference.”
Addressing the graduates, Professor Ram Ramaswamy said, “The value of a liberal education cannot be underestimated. When one lives a relatively long adulthood, fifty years or more for most of us here, one needs to be engaged with the world around us in an intense manner and one needs also to be equipped to respond to changes, and the longer one lives, the more drastic the changes tend to be. We have to be more than passengers.”
