Somerville Faculty, College of Oxford honours Natarajan Chandrasekaran with Basis Fellowship

Mumbai, 26^th Sep 2025 : Somerville Faculty, College of Oxford is happy to announce the election of distinguished enterprise chief Mr Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, as a Basis Fellow of Somerville Faculty.

A Basis Fellowship is the very best honour conferred by Somerville Faculty for philanthropy. Chandra, as he’s popularly referred to as was elected to the Fellowship by outgoing Principal Baroness Jan Royall and the Governing Physique of Somerville Faculty in summer time 2025. The ceremony of conferral was held on twenty third September 2025, within the firm of Vice-Chancellor of the College of Oxford, Professor Irene Tracey, the Excessive Commissioner of India, HE Vikram Doraiswami, Mr Varun Chandra, the UK Prime Minister’s Particular Adviser on Enterprise and Funding, and lots of different distinguished associates and colleagues from the Tata Group and the College of Oxford.

Chandra was elected a Basis Fellow in recognition of his instrumental position in enabling the creation of Somerville Faculty’s new flagship instructing and studying hub, the Ratan Tata Constructing. Named in honour of Chandra’s mentor, the revered philanthropist Mr Ratan Tata, Somerville Faculty’s new constructing will create a everlasting dwelling for the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Growth, which has been main analysis into urgent issues of sustainability and growth affecting India and the world since 2013.

A Basis Fellowship is a good honour, making a lifelong bond between its recipient and Oxford. This Basis Fellowship is an indication of the Faculty’s gratitude for the years of friendship, shared desires and transformative help which the Tata Group has proven this Faculty and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Growth.

Catherine Royle, Principal of Somerville Faculty, mentioned: “Chairman Chandrasekaran is a shining testomony to the ability of meritocracy and simply how a lot could be achieved by mind and exhausting work. I’m delighted that we now have been capable of recognise his contribution to the continuing partnership between Somerville Faculty, the OICSD and the Tata Group by this well-deserved honour.”

N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons commented: “This uncommon establishment has been quietly blazing a path on behalf of essentially the most urgent social causes going through our world for nearly 150 years and continues to take action right this moment. Their work chimes powerfully with the values of our enterprise and its shining mild, Mr Ratan Tata.” Chandra continued, “I’m assured that the fertile interdisciplinary atmosphere of Somerville Faculty and the enduring bridge the OICSD creates between Oxford and India imply that this partnership will solely develop within the years to come back. Working collectively, we now have the chance to deal with among the greatest environmental and social questions going through the world.”

Natarajan Chandrasekaran earned a Bachelor’s diploma in Utilized Sciences from the Coimbatore Institute of Know-how, Tamil Nadu, adopted by a Grasp of Pc Functions (MCA) from the Nationwide Institute of Know-how, Tiruchirappalli. Ever since ending his educational research, Mr Chandrasekaran has devoted himself single-mindedly to furthering the reason for his beloved Tata Group, rising first to grow to be Chairman of Tata Consulting Providers, earlier than taking over the Chairmanship of different key Tata Group subsidiaries and eventually his present place as Chairman of Tata Sons and the Tata Group, India’s largest enterprise conglomerate.