Key Achievements of Soumitra Dutta Former Oxford Dean and Co-Creator of the Network Readiness Index

Key Achievements of Soumitra Dutta, Co-Creator of the
Network Readiness Index
Soumitra Dutta has worked for nearly forty years at top business schools around the world.
One of his key academic achievements is co-creating the Network Readiness Index.
The NRI The NRI was first published in 2002 by Dutta, who later became dean of Oxford
Said Business School. For fifteen years, the World Economic Forum published the NRI, and
it is now published by the Portulans Institute. The NRI ranks about 130 economies using
four main pillars—technology, people, governance, and impact—and 53 indicators, such
as broadband subscription rates, the number of artificial intelligence papers published,
digital policy effectiveness, and mobile phone subscribers. The NRI shows how countries
are using information and communication technology.igarh is where Dutta was born․ After
earning his B․Tech․from IIT Delhi‚ he completed a PhD in computer science from UC
Berkeley in 1990․ Dutta joined INSEAD in 1989‚ where he spent more than 20 years․ On the
highlights of his contributions to the school was establishing the eLab‚ one of the first bigdata
analytics institutes in Europe‚ and developing research methods that would become
instrumental in global policymaking․

Soumitra Dutta moved to the United States in 2012 to join Cornell, where he worked until
2022. At Cornell, he brought together the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of
Management, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and
the Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration to form a single college. He
became the founding dean of the SC Johnson College of Business, a major restructuring in
American business education, supported in part by a $150 million naming gift. He also
created a dual MBA program with Tsinghua University, the first joint-degree of its kind in the
Ivy League.
In 2022, Dutta became the Peter Moores Dean of the University of Oxford's Saïd Business
School. He has focused on building expertise in AI and digital leadership and strengthening
the school's connections with industry and government.
Dutta also serves on the board of Dassault Systemes․ IIT Delhi awarded him its
Distinguished Dutta also serves on the board of Dassault Systemes. In 2017, IIT Delhi gave
him its Distinguished Alumnus award.