Biography

Prof. Goutam Dutta is a retired faculty member of IIM, Ahmedabad, and now Visiting Professor at IIM, Mumbai . He was a faculty at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK (1996-97) and visiting Professor at University of Illinois, USA (2001), HEC Paris (2011), Chinese University of Hong Kong, (2004) and Loughborough University(UK) in 2018.

He worked in Tata Iron for 11 years in project engineering, information technology (IT) and at General Manager (Operations) Office for 11 years , He has served IIMA for about 25 years as full-time faculty where he was the Chairperson of Production and Quantitative Methods Area , Research and Publications Committee and Doctoral Program (2020-22). During his tenure as Chairperson of Agri-Business Management (2010-2013), IIM, Ahmedabad was ranked No.1 in the world for the first time.

His doctoral dissertation from Northwestern University (1991-96), funded from grants of NSF, USA and AISI, led to the development of planning software, copyrighted, and licensed by Northwestern University, USA. This work was selected as one of the four finalists for EURO Excellence in Practice Award in Iceland in 2006.

He was in the panel for Prime Minister of India’s Trophy for selecting the best steel plant in India(2015-16), founding member of Indian Academic Board PMI-USA (2009-2013).

The work done by his team members in energy Modeling at Tata Steel resulted 73 million dollars of saving for which Tata Steel became joint winner of the prestigious Franz Edelman Award of INFORMS, USA in 1994. Tata Steel become the first and only Asian Company to get this laurel in 1994. He was honored as Edelman Laureate by INFORMS in 2009. He has also received First Prize in IFORS OR for Development Prize Competition in 1993(first from India) . Now he is a member of Franz Edelman Award Selection Team, INFORMS.

He has conducted executive education/consulted/written cases with several reputed Indian and International companies. He has trained over 3500 executives in Project Management, Revenue management and dynamic pricing and emerging Leadership Program. Other than India, he also taught executives students/executives of USA, UK, France, China, Nepal, Oman Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Canada, France, China, and Romania. He has been invited, keynote and plenary speaker for several national and international conferences and visited several universities in India and 18 foreign countries.

He is an Associate Editor of IJAA (INFORMS) USA, IJRM,USA JORS(UK), OPSEARCH(India), He is one of the former Associate Editors of OMEGA and ITOR. He has published 47 papers in major international journals like MSOM,JORS,DSS, CAIE, IJPR, IJPE,JRPM, IJRM, JEMF.

He was the Vice President, President-Elect, and President of Operational Research Society of India(ORSI) during 2012-19 and has been elected as Fellow of the ORSI (2017) and selected as Distinguished Educator(2018) by ORSI .He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers India. He has chaired two International panel of juries of IFORS OR for Developing Countries Prize Contest (in 1999 and 2002) and member of this panel in 1996.