Soumitra Dutta is Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
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 2022, 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).

Other current positions and directorships:

Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Global Business Schools Network (GBSN), (United States)