Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Ra­jah-Khan is among this year’s re­cip­i­ents of hon­orary doc­tor­al de­grees from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT).

Khan will be con­ferred with an Hon­orary Doc­tor of Laws at the uni­ver­si­ty’s 2025 Pre­sen­ta­tion of Grad­u­ates Cer­e­mo­ny, which takes place on No­vem­ber 18 at the Lord Kitch­en­er Au­di­to­ri­um, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), Port-of-Spain.

UTT an­nounced that three dis­tin­guished in­di­vid­u­als will re­ceive hon­orary de­grees this year in recog­ni­tion of their out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to ed­u­ca­tion, fash­ion, cul­tur­al ad­vance­ment, and law. The oth­er ho­n­ourees are fash­ion de­sign­er Pe­ter Elias, who will re­ceive an Hon­orary Doc­tor of Fine Arts, and Jamwant Ma­haraj, who will be award­ed an Hon­orary Doc­tor of Sci­ence.

Cul­tur­al ad­vo­cate Gilman Fi­garo will al­so be named an Hon­orary Dis­tin­guished Fel­low.

The uni­ver­si­ty will fur­ther con­fer sev­en Doc­tor of Phi­los­o­phy (Ph.D.) de­grees in Ed­u­ca­tion, En­tre­pre­neur­ship and Com­mer­cial Stud­ies, and Health Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

This year’s grad­u­a­tion will cel­e­brate about 1,500 grad­uands, who will re­ceive un­der­grad­u­ate and post­grad­u­ate de­grees across dis­ci­plines in­clud­ing En­gi­neer­ing, the Arts, Sport, Fash­ion, and oth­er in­no­v­a­tive ar­eas of study.

The cer­e­mo­ny will be presided over by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, who serves as Chan­cel­lor of UTT.