Previous Fellowship Ceremonies

Find out about our previous Fellowship Ceremonies and see a selection of photos of our new Fellows.

Previous ceremonies

In June 2024 we held two ceremonies for Fellows who were elected in 2023 or earlier.

In total, we welcomed 83 new Fellows, 49 on 6 June and 34 on 12 June.

Attendees were welcomed with speeches from President Dr Lade Smith CBE and Chief Executive Sonia Walter who celebrated the achievements of our new Fellows.

The Fellows presented in June 2024 were:

Dr Emma AbbeyDr Sarfaraz Aslam Shora
Dr Ankur AgarwalDr Shaheen Aslam Shora
Dr Hina AghaDr Anees-Ul-Haq Syed
Dr Oghenevwoke AkpubiDr Simon Taylor
Dr Alice Ashby Dr Cleo Van Velsen
Dr Iyas AssalmanDr Chung Hin Willy Wong
Dr Lisa BlissittDr Mohammad Tayeem Pathan
Dr Marisa Casanova Dias 
Dr Preeti ChhabraDr Rasha Abbas
Dr Rachael Cullivan ElliottDr Adeola Akinola
Dr Nicola CurtisDr Lucy Allsopp
Dr Soumitra Shankar DattaDr Ana Maria Almaraz Serrano
Dr Claire DillonDr Sophia Anwar
Dr Jessica EcclesDr Saadia Arshad
Dr Rafael GafoorDr Tuoyo Awani
Dr Praveen GandamaneniDr Reenee Barton
Dr Rachna Gurtu BansalDr Klaus Martin Beckmann
Dr Abrar HussainDr Ahmed Babatunde Bello
Dr Josie JenkinsonDr Rani Bora
Dr Khaled KadryDr Wan Lian Chua
Dr Sen KallumpuramDr Meryl Dahlitz
Dr Sushanth KamathDr Himanshu Garg
Dr Ba Min KoDr Natasha Gupta
Dr Anil KodagalliDr Muhammad Adnan Hafeez
Dr Manonmani ManoharanDr Suhaib Bin Bilal Hafi
Dr Páll Matthíasson Dr Jide Igboekwu
Dr Sara McDevittDr Pablo Jeczmien
Dr Darren MinshallDr Senthil Kumar
Dr Rittick MukherjeeDr Saqib Latif
Dr Catherine MuyebaDr Naghma Malik
Dr Balamurugan NambiDr Omer Malik
Dr Sheeba NinanDr Fiona McDowall
Dr Jibowu OlubokunDr Mehdi Mirkhani
Dr Prajakta PatilDr Paula Murphy
Dr Hayley PonsfordDr Sarmad Nadeem
Dr Parashar RamanujDr Ambreen Naz
Dr Guy RobertsProfessor Dheeraj Rai
Dr Howard RylandDr Prem Rai
Dr Fareeha Amber SadiqDr Sunita Sahu
Dr Siraj SalahudeenDr Muhammad Saleem Khan Tareen
Dr Samir ShahDr Nicholas Taylor
Dr Gaurav SharmaDr Nuruz Zaman

 

In June we held two ceremonies for Fellows who were elected in 2022.

We welcomed 27 new Fellows on 1 June and 17 on 8 June. We also awarded Honorary Fellowship to Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard at the ceremony on 8 June.

Attendees were welcomed with speeches from President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE.

The Fellows presented in June were:

Dr Rais Irfan AhmedDr Prakash Shankar
Dr Saminathan AnandDr Sandip Talukdar
Dr Gurleen BhatiaDr Vasudevan Vaidikan Thaikkattu Namboodiri
Professor Sharmi BhattacharyyaDr Anusha Wijeratne
Dr Vishwa Pradeep Nagesh Boddana 
Dr Nina Champaneri 
Dr Sathya CherukuriDr Ted Agadagba
Dr Mosunmola FapohundaDr Danilo Arnone
Dr Partha GangopadhyayDr Rinki Banerjee
Dr Abhishek GoliDr Devika Colwill
Dr Miriam IsaacDr Walter Enudi
Dr Mandy JohnstoneDr Harsha Gopisetty
Professor Nilamadhab KarDr Sepehr Hafizi
Dr Chetan Bangra KuloorDr Kedar Kale
Dr Saadia MuzaffarProfessor Catherine Kinane
Dr Chinwe ObinwaDr Swapna Kongara
Dr Aparna PrasannaDr Raphael Mayone
Dr Mohtasim QamruddinDr Hamid Rahmanian
Dr Naresh RasquinhaDr Ann Ryman
Dr Khurram SadiqDr Padakkara Saju
Dr Aamer SajjadProfessor Kapil Sayal
Dr David SansomDr Liz Searle
Dr Indermeet SawhneyDr Nu Nu Yi


We held ceremonies in March and April for those Fellows who were elected in 2020 and whose ceremonies in 2021 unfortunately couldn't take place due to the pandemic.

We celebrated 21 new Fellows on 2 March and 11 on 13 April. We also welcomed Professor Kam Bhui as a new Honorary Fellow at the ceremony on 13 April. Attendees, who'd travelled from across the country and from around the world, were welcomed by President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE.

The Fellows we welcomed at these ceremonies were:

Dr Mohamed Abdelghani Dr Manouri Senaratne 
Dr Bijil Simon Arackal Dr Harriet Stewart 
Dr Cecilia Batten Dr Micheline Tremblay 
Dr Mridul Biswas Dr Pauline Twomey
Dr Richard Church 
Dr Anke Conway Morris
Dr Samaa El Abd Dr Richard Bunn 
Dr Graeme Feggetter Dr Jennifer Evelyn Ford 
Dr Kehinde JunaidDr Julia Gledhill
Professor Farooq Khan Dr Ashwani Kapila 
Dr Pallab Majumder Dr Richelle Maria Kirrane 
Dr Marc Mandell Dr Annie McCloud 
Dr Ehab MorganDr Clare Paula McLorinan 
Dr Kamalika MukherjiDr Sandra Metcalfe 
Dr Niamh Mulryan Dr Atiqa Rafiq
Dr Anna Neilson-Williams Dr Bennett Sikabofori 
Dr Christopher Pell Dr Sekharan Jaisoorya Thiruppadikkal 

 

 

Our February ceremonies welcomed those who were elected as Fellows of the College in 2019 and whose Fellowship ceremonies in 2020 were unfortunately postponed during the pandemic.

We welcomed 15 Fellows on 16 February and 17 Fellows on 23 February. Fellows travelled from across the country and from around the world to attend the ceremonies. Attendees heard speeches from President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE. 

The following Fellows were welcomed at these ceremonies:

Dr Yasir AbbasiDr Mohammed Al-Rawi 
Dr Karim Ali Abdel AzizDr Fabida Aria 
Dr Magdi Ishag Ahmed Dr Malarvizhy Baheerathan 
Dr Asif Bachlani Dr Sarmishtha Chakrabarti 
Dr Daniel Bennett Dr Panchajanya Ghatak 
Dr Neel Halder Dr Jose Igoa
Dr Charlotte Illingworth Dr Pavan Joshi 
Dr Dilum Jayawickrama Dr Raafat Samir Labib Mishriky 
Dr Kandarp Joshi Dr Amulya Nadkarni
Professor Aftab Alam Khan Dr Rajesh Nehete 
Dr Asad Yaqub Malik Dr John Oguntade
Dr Laura Mannion Dr Bhathika Perera 
Professor Tarik Qassem Mohammad Dr Sujaa Mary Rajagopal Arokiadass 
Dr Derrett Watts Dr Prakash Raviraj 
Dr Sobhi Yagoub Dr Simmi Sachdeva-Mohan 
 Dr Sivasubramaniam Srikumar 
 Dr Jon Van Niekerk 

 

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