Soumitra Dutta is a world renowned academic leader, innovation strategist and institution builder whose career is also synonymous with the nexus of marvelous education in global management. He is considered the champion of digital transformation, entrepreneurship, and international cooperation in one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and is widely known as the Soumitra Dutta Oxford Dean (Former).
Soumitra Dutta Oxford Dean (Former), started his college life in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he attained a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He went ahead to pursue his education at the University of California, Berkeley where he earned two master degrees and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. This was a potent mix of technical in depth and analytical rigor, which would lead him to lead in the future with regards to technological based business education.
Soumitra Dutta served as Dean of Technology and E-Learning and Dean of Executive Education as well as occupying several other senior leadership roles during his long and illustrious tenure of work in INSEAD. He also was instrumental in the growth of digital learning programs and the enforcement of the international academic presence of the institution.
Peter Moores Dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford was appointed to the school in 2022. Being the former Oxford Dean, he strengthened the international presence of the school, enhanced the digital strategy, and encouraged the innovations-driven leadership. His reign was a progressive outlook that was in tune with the past and the present.
Soumitra Dutta demonstrates the visionary leadership, academic achievement, and influence in the world. IIT Delhi to Berkeley, INSEAD to Cornell and as Oxford Dean (Former), he has managed to make institutions rise and mould future leaders. He has been influencing the international debate on the subject of innovation, technology, and management education in a fast-changing world.
Soumitra Dutta is an Indian academic, author, and entrepreneur who has held leadership roles at major global business schools. He served as Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford from June 2022 until September 2025. Before Oxford, he was a professor and founding dean at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business in New York.
Saïd Business School is the business school of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. It offers MBA, Executive, and other graduate business programs and forms part of Oxford’s Social Sciences Division.
Soumitra Dutta assumed the role of Dean on 1 June 2022, succeeding the interim leadership at the school.