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SPJIMR’s Annual Convocation Ceremony 2024 will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at its Mumbai campus. Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, corporate advisor and author, will be the Chief Guest. He is also an Executive in Residence (EIR) at SPJIMR.
This year, 700+ participants across nine programmes representing the Class of 2024 will graduate and join the ranks of our illustrious alumni. The programmes include:
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management Business Management PGDM (BM)
- Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM)
- Post Graduate Management Programme for Women (PGMPW)
- Post Graduate Executive Management Programme (PGEMP)
- Executive Programme in Business Management (EP-BM)
- Post Graduate Programme in General Management (PGPGM)
- Post Graduate Programme in Development Management (PGPDM)
- Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
The event will be live-streamed on this page on May 18, 2024 from 5:30 pm onwards.
| 17:30 pm | Convocation procession starts |
| 18:00 pm | National Anthem |
| 18:01 pm | Declaring the convocation open by the Chairman, Governing Council, SPJIMR |
| 18:02 pm | Invocation prayer |
| 18:03 pm | Welcome address by the Dean, SPJIMR |
| 18:13 pm | Chairman’s address and introduction of the Chief Guest |
| 18:20 pm | Award of certificates to the scholars of the Fellow Programme in Management |
| 18:23 pm | Award of Scholastic Medals to the participants of the Post Graduate Programmes |
| 18:27 pm | Award of certificates to the Post Graduate participants on the Dean’s Honour List (DHL) |
| 18:40 pm | Convocation address by the Chief Guest |
| 18:55 pm | Award of certificates to the participants of the Post Graduate Programmes |
| 20:44 pm | Closing of the convocation by the Dean, SPJIMR |
*This will be followed by the customary Graduation Day celebrations and dinner.
R Gopalakrishnan
Executive in Residence
A corporate leader for 55 years, Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan has served as the Chairman of Unilever Arabia, Managing Director of Brooke Bond Lipton, Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever and Director on the Board of Tata Sons, as well as several other Tata companies. He is an independent director and non-executive chairman of Castrol India and an independent director of the Press Trust of India (PTI). He also serves as a Distinguished Professor at IIT Kharagpur.
An erstwhile newspaper columnist, he continues to write every month for financial papers and has authored several books. He actively engages in both instructional and inspirational speaking worldwide and in India.
Mr. Gopalakrishnan has a wide repertoire of subjects like Business in India, Markets and Customers, Governance and Strategy, Organisation and People, and Innovation. He relies on practical examples, rich with anecdotes rather than theory or analytical frameworks. He is known for his unusual management course titled ‘LWNT – learning what nobody teaches’.
Mr. Gopalakrishnan studied physics at the University of Calcutta, engineering at IIT Kharagpur, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.