Soumitra Dutta

Spear’s Review

Soumitra Dutta sits at the helm of the Saïd Business School at Oxford, which lays claim to the UK’s best executive MBA course, according to the 2024 QS World University Rankings. 

Dutta took over as the school’s dean in the middle of 2022, having served as a professor of Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in New York. As a professor of management at Oxford, Dutta produces world-leading research around the impact of innovation in business, and has authored 14 editions of the Global Innovation Index. 

He also acts as a founding adviser for Green Frontier Capital, which bills itself as India’s first climate-focused VC, and which aims to deliver ‘breakthrough innovation' to help the country meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Dutta is also a fellow of the World Economic Forum and has advisory roles supporting a number of other leading business schools around the world.