Krea University celebrated Convocation 2024 on Saturday, 22 June at The Music Academy, Chennai.

This year, we were privileged to have Dr K VijayRaghavan, Former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India as the Chief Guest at the ceremony.

The event witnessed the graduation of 350 students — UG Cohort of SIAS (School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences) (2024), PG Diploma Cohort of SIAS (2024), 2 year MBA Cohort of IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business) (2024), 3 year L&T MBA Cohort of IFMR GSB (2024) and PhD Cohort of Krea University (2024). They were conferred with degrees in the presence of Chancellor of Krea University, Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chancellor Professor Nirmala Rao; members of the Governing Council, Amitava Saha, Dr Vidya Vencatesan, C Srinivasa Raju, D Sundaram, Raghu Sundaram, Kapil Viswanathan; member of the Advisory Group, R Seshasayee; members of the Board of Management, Paula Mariwala, Roxana Daver and Rajeev Mecheri; Dean of IFMR GSB Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Academic Dean of SIAS Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, Dean of Research Professor Sivakumar Srinivasan and other members of the Krea community.

Convocation 2024 also witnessed the conferral of the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa (L.H.D.), upon Professor David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (DLitt), upon Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation, in recognition of exceptional services to education and development.