Dr. Sumanta Dutta is a senior faculty member of the Postgraduate and Research Department of Commerce (M. Com.), St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, under the University of Calcutta. He is the State President (West Bengal) of the Department of Research and Innovation Wing of the Research Foundation of India. He has over 22 years of experience in teaching and research. He has contributed eleven edited books, two case books, and one research book to a reputed publishing house in India. He obtained one patent and one copyright recently. He has acted as a resource person for more than 75 workshops conducted (both offline and online) by various research bodies in India on the theme of research ethics.

He has also contributed more than 47 research papers to various national and international journals, including UGC-Care, Scopus, and ABDC. His work has been well cited both in the SSRN top ten download list and in Google Scholar. For his outstanding contribution in the field of marketing research, he got the National Education Leadership Award in 2019. He also obtained the Teaching and Research Award 2020, Outstanding Post-Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award 2020-2021, Education Excellence Award 2021 and Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Education Excellence Award 2022.