The Convocation ceremony will be held on Saturday, 13 June 2026, at The Music Academy, Chennai. We are privileged to have Hon’ble Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud, Former Chief Justice of India, as the Chief Guest for the ceremony. Convocation 2026 will also witness the conferral of the Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D Sc), upon Professor Satya Chakravarthy, Professor, IIT Madras and Co-Founder & Technical Lead, The ePlane Company, and the Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (D Litt), upon Professor Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at the Department of Economics and SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. View live stream, here

IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) is gearing up for the Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) 2026 as researchers, academicians, and practitioners from across the globe come together to discuss and deliberate upon key issues in Finance and Economics that are shaping the world today. Know more

Darshan Ramakrishnan, Physics Major, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) Cohort of 2026, has been selected for CAMP (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity), a highly selective summer programme to train students in computational neuroscience, to be held at IISER Pune. Slated to from 2-16 July 2026, CAMP is an intensive 15-day course, where students will be trained in theoretical and computational modeling of memory and plasticity in the brain, spanning different scales of space, time, and complexity. Know more

Keynote

Professor Madhuri Saripalle, Professor, Economics, IFMR GSB, was invited as a keynote speaker at the Summer School being organised by the ‘Luigi Einaudi’ School of Advanced Studies, at the University of Catania - Syracusa, Italy from 4-7 June 2026.  She spoke on 'Institutions, supply chains and farmer agency, with particular reference to economic freedom in agricultural livelihoods.'

Session

Nangsel Sherpa, Faculty Teaching Associate, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) was invited by the Literary Club and the Department of English at Mirik College, West Bengal, to lead an interactive session on academic and creative writing. The session evolved into a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges students face in writing, and the ways in which AI is shaping how young writers understand and approach their own practice. The session was held on 3 June 2026.

Essay

An essay by Dr Dipanjali Deka, Visiting Assistant Professor, Krea-CWP titled Singing Nirgun Fearlessly: A Journey from Baahar (Outer) to Bheetar (Inner), has been published in the Routledge-edited volume - The Indian Knowledge System: Creative Dialogue on Intellectual Traditions in the 21st Century, edited by Manindra Thakur and Shailja Tandon. Know more

Lecture

Professor Srinivasan Kalyanasundaram, Professor of Practice, Finance, IFMR GSB, was invited by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India - Pimpri Chinchwad Chapter, to deliver an online lecture on ‘Agentic AI: The New Engine of Cost-Optimised Banking’ as part of their continuous professional education learning for their Cost and Management Accountants on 12 June 2026.

Presentation

Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS presented a paper titled ‘Can Climate Science Feel? Performing Emotion as Climate Knowledge’ at the EGU26 General Assembly that was hosted in Vienna, Austria and online this year. The paper was co-presented with Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS.

Lecture Demonstration

Dr Ganesh was also invited to present a lecture-demonstration at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, IIAS, Shimla. As part of the International Seminar/Performance on  ‘Tracing Roots of  Jñāna Paraṁaparā in Contemporary Practice of Classical Arts’, she presented on the topic 'From Courts to Crossroads- Tracing the Devadasi repertoire through the History and Performance of the Javali.'

IFMR GSB’s history of promising placements continues. This year witnessed diverse new-age roles while straddling a fine balance with traditional profiles. Many partner organisations returned to recruit IFMR GSB MBA students while new corporates stepped into the B-school for the first time.

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