Soumitra Dutta

Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD. He was previously the Dean for Executive Education 2002-2006. He is the faculty Director of eLab@INSEAD, INSEAD's initiative in building a center of excellence in teaching and research in the digital economy in collaboration with leading international organisations such as Morgan Stanley, SAP, and Cisco.

His current research is on technology strategy and innovation at both corporate and national policy levels. His latest books are The Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008: Fostering Innovation through Networked Readiness (Palgrave April 2008), The Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007: Connecting to the Networked Economy (Palgrave, March 2007), The Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006: Leveraging ICT for Development (Palgrave, March 2006) and The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe (Springer, Feb. 2006). He has authored seven other books including The Bright Stuff (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002), Embracing the Net (Financial Times, 2001) and Process Reengineering, Organizational Change and Performance Improvement (McGraw-Hill, 1999). He has won several awards for research and pedagogy including awards for the European Case of the Year from the European Case Clearing House in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2002.

He is actively involved in policy development at national and European levels. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for ICT for the Government of Qatar and has advised other national governments on ICT policy issues. He is the Chairman of the European Commission's Europe Innova panel on Innovation in the ICT sector and a member of the Steering Committee of eBSN, the European Commission's eBusiness Network initiative for SMEs. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.