With a PhD in Computer Sciences, Soumitra Dutta is Founder and President of the Portulans Institute, a think tank based in Washington D.C., and Founding General Partner of Green Frontier Capital, a climate tech venture fund.

Soumitra Dutta began his career in 1985 as a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Between 1988 and 1990, he gained further research experience at General Electric. 

He then joined Insead, the international management school based in Fontainebleau (France), where he served as lecturer then Dean of Technology and E-learning. In 1999, he set up eLab@Insead, the school’s research and analytics center focused on big data analytics for businesses, which he headed until 2012. In 2002, he was named Dean of Executive Education at Insead. 

During his tenure at Insead, Soumitra Dutta also participated in setting up and managing three strategy consultancies specialized in new technologies and innovation, which he developed before selling them.

 From 2012 to 2018, he was successively Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Founding Dean of the College of Business at Cornell University (New York, United States). From 2022 to 2025, he was  Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). 

Other current positions and directorships:

Chief Executive Officer of Igesia Inc., Member of the Board of Directors of the Bankinter Foundation, Madrid (Spain), Member of the advisory boards of the following universities: Vin University, Hanoi (Vietnam), Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca (Saudi Arabia) the Royal Academy of Management, Muscat (Oman) and the GISMA University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam (Germany).