Overview
- Ashoka announced the appointment of Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan on Monday, June 15, and said he will take office on August 1 for an initial three‑year term.
- The university said a Governing Body‑constituted search committee vetted candidates and recommended Krishnan before the Chancellor confirmed the selection.
- Krishnan led IIM Indore (2014–2018) and IIM Bangalore (2020–2025), mentored IIM Sambalpur, and spent nearly three decades on the IIM Bangalore faculty after earning degrees at IIT Kanpur, Stanford and IIM Ahmedabad.
- Outgoing Vice‑Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury will step down from the post but remain associated with Ashoka as a scientist and professor, a move Ashoka frames as ensuring continuity during its recent expansion of schools and scholarship programmes.
- Ashoka expects Krishnan’s experience in launching multidisciplinary structures, developing undergraduate programmes, and serving on national policy bodies to steer faculty hiring, curricular growth, and external partnerships that affect students, researchers, and donors.