The following Honorary Doctorate Degrees may be conferred on persons who have achieved distinction in education, industry, business, culture, creative work or public service. Other considerations may include the fact that their achievements have a particular relevance to the Asiainstitut of Management’s Mission, and that they represent good role models for the institution's students. Honorary degrees are not awarded to encourage or reward contributions to the institution. The honorary degrees which may be awarded are:

Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa (Hon DBA) for business and or industry contributions

Doctor of Humane Letter honoris causa (Hon DHL) for cultural contributions

Doctor of Laws honoris causa (Hon LLD) for public service contributions

Doctor of Science honoris causa (Hon DSc) for contributions to knowledge

HONORARY DEGREES COMMITTEE

The Honorary Degrees Committee is a Standing Committee of Academic Council of the Asiainstitut of Management, with the following membership:

President

Vice-President

Academic Council Members

Heads of Departments

Academic Registrar

The Academic Registrar shall act as Secretary to the Honorary Degrees Committee.

The Honorary Degrees Committee shall have full delegated authority from the Academic Council to receive and consider nominations for the award of Honorary Degrees.

The business of the Honorary Degrees Committee shall be confidential to its members.

PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERING NOMINATIONS

Any member of the Academic Council or of the Board of Governors may submit in confidence to the Secretary of the Honorary Degrees Committee the name of a person for consideration for the award of an Honorary Degree.

The Honorary Degrees Committee shall not consider applications from or on behalf of persons desirous of receiving Honorary awards.

Having considered the nominations received, the Honorary Degrees Committee shall submit in confidence to the Chair of the Board of Governors a list of those persons to whom it proposes to offer Honorary awards. The Chair of the Board of Governors shall not have power to veto names on the list, but shall be entitled to refer back any name to the Honorary Degrees Committee for further consideration and final decision.

No Honorary Degrees of the Institution shall be offered other than have been approved by the Honorary Degrees Committee.

The name of a person who is to receive an Honorary award shall be formally notified to the Board of Governors only after the Honorary Degrees Committee has approved the offer of the award and the proposed recipient has confirmed his/her intention to accept.

CONFERMENT OF HONORARY DEGREE AWARDS

Honorary awards shall be conferred at Awards Ceremonies of the Institution. The president of the institution or a designated representative on behalf of the institution confers the honorary degrees

Withdrawal of HONORARY DEGREE Awards

In the event that recipients of the honorary degree awards have been found to commit breach or suspected breach of conduct to the service of humanity, on recommendations by the Honorary Degrees Committee, the awards will be revoked.