Edu-leaders

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has appointed Indian Guru Soumitra Dutta as the 11th dean of the institute. Dutta is likely to take the charge on July 1st.

Cornell President David J. Skorton said, "With the appointment of Dutta, Johnson becomes the first major business school in the US to hire a dean from a business school outside the country.’  Dutta has expertise in new and emerging media. He has studied the conditions that promote innovation and has extensive experience on the international stage.

An alumnus of IIT-Delhi, Soumitra Dutta will succeed Joseph Thomas, who is stepping down after a five-year term as dean. Dutta, 48, is the first dean of Indian origin at the 66-year-old Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor in Business and Technology at INSEAD, a top-ranked graduate business school with other campuses in Singapore and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dutta has held visiting professorships at the Haas School, University of California-Berkeley, Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford and Judge School at University of Cambridge.